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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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Personal Journaling Ideas: The 10 Things I Love List

Mari L. McCarthy

We all have those days where nothing seems to be going right. Remember the classic children’s book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day . That kind of day… where it feels impossible to break out of a rotten mood.

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(JTC) Journaling Tips #57 - Do You Have the Right Stuff?

Mari L. McCarthy

<<In your Journal, write on the right side page only---for a couple days, a whole week, an entire journal >>

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Embrace Your Fall with Nature Journaling

Mari L. McCarthy

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(JTC) Journaling Tips #56 Making Headlines

Mari L. McCarthy

Read some local online or offline newspapers. Use an intriguing headline as the opening sentence in your Journal. Something like:

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The Best Friend Who Always Listens

Mari L. McCarthy

By Henrietta Handy

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Song Shuffle Journal Therapy

Mari L. McCarthy

After a long, relaxing holiday weekend, it can be a little painful to head back to the fast pace of work and the real world. Take 30 minutes tonight to regroup with some journal therapy and your...

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(JTC) Journaling Tips #55 - A Room with a View

Mari L. McCarthy

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Writer's Block, Just Cut it Out!

Mari L. McCarthy

Do you ever feel as if your brain jumps from one topic to the next so rapidly you can hardly keep up? The bad news is that it can be difficult to focus for long enough to decide what to write about...

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(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...

Personal Journaling Ideas: The 10 Things I Love List-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

September 22, 2010

Personal Journaling Ideas: The 10 Things I Love List

We all have those days where nothing seems to be going right. Remember the classic children’s book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good,...

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(JTC) Journaling Tips #57 - Do You Have the Right Stuff?-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

September 18, 2010

(JTC) Journaling Tips #57 - Do You Have the Right Stuff?

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Embrace Your Fall with Nature Journaling-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

September 15, 2010

Embrace Your Fall with Nature Journaling

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(JTC) Journaling Tips #56 Making Headlines-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

September 13, 2010

(JTC) Journaling Tips #56 Making Headlines

Read some local online or offline newspapers. Use an intriguing headline as the opening sentence in your Journal. Something like:

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The Best Friend Who Always Listens-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

September 12, 2010

The Best Friend Who Always Listens

By Henrietta Handy

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Mari L. McCarthy

September 9, 2010

Song Shuffle Journal Therapy

After a long, relaxing holiday weekend, it can be a little painful to head back to the fast pace of work and the real world. Take 30 minutes tonight...

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