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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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(JTC) Journaling Tips #53: My Bodyguard

Mari L. McCarthy

Our body is a wonderland but we treat it like a garbage can! When you have a pain, notice how automatically you reach for the pill bottle. Next time you have an ache or pain, reach for your journal first and diagnose what your thoughts and feelings have to do with the messages your body’s sending you.

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Journal Therapy: Grief Journal Exercise #1

Mari L. McCarthy

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Inner Healing: Get Out of Your Own Way and Get to the Page

Mari L. McCarthy

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(JTC) Journaling Tips #52: Sleeping Beauty

Mari L. McCarthy

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Journaling Ideas: Keep a Gratitude Journal

Mari L. McCarthy

More often than not, it’s not our blessings but our worries, fears and other nagging problems that keep us tossing and turning at night. Some days we may feel as if nothing is going our way: work...

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Writing Your Way Through the Journey You're on: The Journal in Midlife

Mari L. McCarthy

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Journaling Tips #51: Music and Lyrics

Mari L. McCarthy

Lyrics make great journaling jumpstarters. Begin a journal writing session with a line from Billy Joel’s ‘The Longest Time’: "I'm that voice you're hearing in the hall and…"

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Personal Journaling: How to Face Your Financial Fears

Mari L. McCarthy

During a tough economy, money worries can become all-consuming, causing negative

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Song Sung True

Mari L. McCarthy

I don't recall my childhood much but I do remember loving music. I glued myself to my radio and played my red-speckled phonograph incessantly. My mom introduced me to "the standards" like Cole...

(JTC) Journaling Tips #53: My Bodyguard-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

August 23, 2010

(JTC) Journaling Tips #53: My Bodyguard

Our body is a wonderland but we treat it like a garbage can! When you have a pain, notice how automatically you reach for the pill bottle. Next time...

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Journal Therapy: Grief Journal Exercise #1-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

August 17, 2010

Journal Therapy: Grief Journal Exercise #1

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Inner Healing: Get Out of Your Own Way and Get to the Page-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

August 14, 2010

Inner Healing: Get Out of Your Own Way and Get to the Page

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(JTC) Journaling Tips #52: Sleeping Beauty-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

August 13, 2010

(JTC) Journaling Tips #52: Sleeping Beauty

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Journaling Ideas: Keep a Gratitude Journal-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

August 10, 2010

Journaling Ideas: Keep a Gratitude Journal

More often than not, it’s not our blessings but our worries, fears and other nagging problems that keep us tossing and turning at night. Some days...

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Writing Your Way Through the Journey You're on: The Journal in Midlife-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

August 6, 2010

Writing Your Way Through the Journey You're on: The Journal in Midlife

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Journaling Tips #51: Music and Lyrics -featured

Mari L. McCarthy

August 5, 2010

Journaling Tips #51: Music and Lyrics

Lyrics make great journaling jumpstarters. Begin a journal writing session with a line from Billy Joel’s ‘The Longest Time’: "I'm that voice you're...

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