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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

Journal Power: Letting Go of Insecurities

Mari L. McCarthy

We’ve talked a lot about fear in this blog. How you can use journal writing to gain control over it. At the request of a reader and fellow journal writer, today I’m approaching a cousin of fear: insecurity.

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Journal Power: Unloading Stuff

Mari L. McCarthy

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

How You Ask the Question in Your Journal

Mari L. McCarthy

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

Journal Power: 7 Steps to Build Courage

Mari L. McCarthy

What an old-fashioned word courage is! We think of it in relation to our troops overseas, but don’t often apply it to ourselves in everyday life. Yet it’s one of the most revered virtues a person...

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

Journal Power: Is Your Life Romantic Enough?

Mari L. McCarthy

I’m a little bit surprised that none of these Journal Power posts so far has focused on approaches to journaling and romance. I’m an over-the-top romantic person and proud of it!

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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 | Journaling Therapy, Creative Journaling

Hack into Your Mind to Become a Successful Author

Mari L. McCarthy

by Nina Amir

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

Journaling Power: Learning How to Say Goodbye

Mari L. McCarthy

When life brings you to the brink of goodbye, lean on your journal writing to give you strength for the passage.

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

How to Slay the Giants Preventing You from Writing Your Story

Mari L. McCarthy

Journal Power: Letting Go of Insecurities-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

July 2, 2014

Journal Power: Letting Go of Insecurities

We’ve talked a lot about fear in this blog. How you can use journal writing to gain control over it. At the request of a reader and fellow journal...

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Mari L. McCarthy

June 25, 2014

Journal Power: Unloading Stuff

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How You Ask the Question in Your Journal-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

June 24, 2014

How You Ask the Question in Your Journal

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Journal Power: 7 Steps to Build Courage-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

June 18, 2014

Journal Power: 7 Steps to Build Courage

What an old-fashioned word courage is! We think of it in relation to our troops overseas, but don’t often apply it to ourselves in everyday life....

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Journal Power: Is Your Life Romantic Enough?-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

June 11, 2014

Journal Power: Is Your Life Romantic Enough?

I’m a little bit surprised that none of these Journal Power posts so far has focused on approaches to journaling and romance. I’m an over-the-top...

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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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