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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!

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Journal Prompts #249 - Forgiveness, Compassion and Love, Oh My!

Mari L. McCarthy

Have a meeting with your Journal and your Inner Critics. Ask them questions about their wounds, their pains, their diseases. Write down their answers. If you feel you need to respond to any or all of them, do so with compassion and kindness. Putting forgiveness on the table is okay too.

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Journal Prompts #248 - A Person of Interest and Intrigue

Mari L. McCarthy

Take a look at yourself in the mirror. What interests you? Take that curiosity to the page and write about those luscious lips, those special smiles, those Betty Davis eyes.

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Journal Prompts #247 - Use Aromatherapy on Your Journal

Mari L. McCarthy

Pick a Fruit or Vegetable. As you're peeling it or cutting it or whatever you do to prepare it for eating, notice its aroma. Journal about how its scent makes you feel; what its fragrance reminds...

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Journal Prompts #246 - My One and Only

Mari L. McCarthy

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Journal Prompts #245 - Make Your Own Kind of Music

Mari L. McCarthy

Pick a song. Use some of its lyrics to start a new journal entry. Or choose a song you love and write your own lyrics!

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Journal Prompts #244 - How Are You Feeling?

Mari L. McCarthy

Sit down with Your Journal. Take a few breaths. On a new page, ask your body (or a body part...like your overthinking head maybe?), how it's feeling? Then listen with your heart and write down what...

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Journal Prompts #243 - It Is What You Think It Is

Mari L. McCarthy

Martin Seligman writes in his book Learned Optimism: "I have found, however, that pessimism is escapable. Pessimists can in fact learn to be optimists, and not through mindless devices like...

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Journal Prompts #242 - Are you Really Ready to Get Real?

Mari L. McCarthy

At your next Journal Sit-Down, enter this question at the top of the page:

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Journal Prompts #241 - Love Me or Leave Me

Mari L. McCarthy

Have a sit-down with your Journal and identify what things or people don't love and support you and your growth, improvement and transformation; the ones that dearly love the status quo. Script out...