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Learn from real people, just like you, how therapeutic journaling can benefit your life. Within these personal stories you’ll find journaling tips, tricks, inspiration and ideas that help you structure your journaling practice—and discover the true value journaling can bring to your life.

Find the inspiration to keep going and the motivation to make journaling work for you and your hectic schedule. Learn about these everyday people who made the decision to put pen to paper and how it transformed their lives!

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Therapy, Self Growth, Creative Journaling, Health

Journal Power for Internal Self Care

Mari L. McCarthy

The tool called internal self care empowers us to become most fully ourselves.

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Self Growth, Creative Journaling, Health

Circling to the Truth in Journaling

Mari L. McCarthy

by Cheryl Hulseapple

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Self Growth, Creative Journaling, Health

Journal Power: What Is My Purpose?

Mari L. McCarthy

Often, a big part of depression is feeling a lack of direction and purpose. If this has become an issue for you, use journaling to better understand what's going on.

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling, Health

Journal Power: Listening to Spirit

Mari L. McCarthy

Who were you before you were born and where are your ancestors now? How was the universe made and what keeps it spinning through space? What, as we ask so often, is the meaning of all this?

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Self Growth, Creative Journaling, Health

Journal Power: 9 Steps to Work Through Depression

Mari L. McCarthy

Someone asked me to write about journaling and depression. Whew! Such a Big Topic. Journaling and Life, or Love, or Death, or Depression. Not easy to wrap the mind around such broad, complex... Read More

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Therapy, Creative Journaling, Health

Journal Power: How Strong is Your Faith?

Mari L. McCarthy

This series of blogs is titled Journal Power because it’s about how journaling can increase your Personal Power. When you keep a regular, pen-to-page journal writing practice, you’re likely to...

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Self Growth, Creative Journaling, Health

Journaling My Past Lives Awake

Mari L. McCarthy

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Self Growth, Creative Journaling, Health

Journal Power: Building Mindfulness for a Better Life

Mari L. McCarthy

The older I get, the more I’m convinced that most of my worries and fears originate in my own mind. And that means I should spend a whole lot less time obsessed with my thoughts in the sense of...

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Therapy, Creative Journaling, Health

Spiritual Journaling - Part Two

Mari L. McCarthy

A guest post by Peg Jones

Journal Power for Internal Self Care-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

October 1, 2014

Journal Power for Internal Self Care

The tool called internal self care empowers us to become most fully ourselves.

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Circling to the Truth in Journaling-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

July 29, 2014

Circling to the Truth in Journaling

by Cheryl Hulseapple

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Journal Power: What Is My Purpose?-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

July 9, 2014

Journal Power: What Is My Purpose?

Often, a big part of depression is feeling a lack of direction and purpose. If this has become an issue for you, use journaling to better understand...

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Journal Power: Listening to Spirit-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

June 4, 2014

Journal Power: Listening to Spirit

Who were you before you were born and where are your ancestors now? How was the universe made and what keeps it spinning through space? What, as we...

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Journal Power: 9 Steps to Work Through Depression-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

May 21, 2014

Journal Power: 9 Steps to Work Through Depression

Someone asked me to write about journaling and depression. Whew! Such a Big Topic. Journaling and Life, or Love, or Death, or Depression. Not easy to...

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