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 | Creative Journaling

(JTC) Journaling Tips #54 - Funny Face

Mari L. McCarthy

Are we at the fun part? Are we having fun yet? Quite often we get very serious in our journal. Solving problems, processing new or recurring or never-ending childhood issues, continuing to figure out who we really are. Doing a lot of ‘whying’ to our self. Searching, searching, and searching. Working, working, working.

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

5 Ways to go "Back to School" with Journaling

Mari L. McCarthy

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

(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...

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

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

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

Mari L. McCarthy

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

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…"