Mari's Journaling Power Blog | CreateWriteNow

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 | 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 concepts.But it’s true: an awful lot of us suffer from depression at one point or another. Let’s define the word loosely as a state in which more negative thoughts dominate your awareness than positive ones. Read More

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

The Pandora’s Box of Journaling

Mari L. McCarthy

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

Journaling Power: What's Your Personal Profile?

Mari L. McCarthy

It’s the Merry Month of May! Mother’s Day, Marriages, and Matriculation!

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

Journaling: A Leader’s Life-Coach

Mari L. McCarthy

By Vivek Sharma

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Social Media for Dogs

Mari L. McCarthy

By David Kalish

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 | Journaling Therapy, Creative Journaling

One Secret at a Time: The Courage to Tell All Your Stories

Mari L. McCarthy

by Sue William Silverman

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

Journaling Power: Dealing with Shame

Mari L. McCarthy

Shame – it’s a scary word. It’s a horrible feeling that everyone knows at least to some extent. Shame feels so bad that we focus a huge part of life on ways to avoid it.