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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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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys

How Journaling and Other Hobbies Can Benefit Your Mental Health

These days, scrolling through your social media feed or any news site is enough to make you want to pack up your belongings and head for some remote location far, far away. With the COVID-19 pandemic and everything else happening around the world, many find themselves struggling mentally, emotionally, and physically. To say the past several months have been rough is a bit of an understatement.


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How to Get Rid of Sentimental Clutter and Spend More Intentionally (+ Free Printables)

Once a new season starts to approach, you may be looking to hit the refresh button. Whether that is to start up a new health challenge, or to gut your house of anything you don’t need. As the leaves...

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Recognizing and Healing the Inner Critic Through Journaling

This is one of my favorite passages in “Journaling Power: How to Create the Happy, Healthy Life You Want to Live” by Mari L. McCarthy.

Through my daily journaling, I learned to recognize my...

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Going From Journaling to Blogging

For many writers, the journal or diary entry has always been a sacred space where one’s public- and private-self find expression. Hopes, dreams, fears, and secrets can be recorded in a safe,...

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Journaling to Uncover What Spirit Wants Self to Know

After birthing the chapters of Sprouting Spiritual Growth in January 2017, I was still in the zone, journaling every morning and continuing to create a poem from each gratitude list. From there, I...

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys

My Journal Practice Is My Best Friend

I was born in May 1957, in the Chelyabinsk region of Russia with a military factory at Mayak and in September the same year there happened an atomic catastrophe. My family emigrated one week later to...

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Pros and Cons of Journaling on Physical Health Issues

  • Do you like to keep a note of things?
  • Is maintaining a diary or journaling your hobby?
  • Ever wondered about the positive and negatives of journaling?

On a global scale about a billion people...

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Saved by my Journal

A week after my daughter was born still, a childhood friend gifted me with a new journal. Inside its front cover, she inscribed a message: "A place for your feelings when they begin to flow."

And...

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Free Online Resources to Improve Your Writing

Hoping to improve your writing this summer? Coupon Chief created a huge list of free online writing courses that will help you boost your written communications skills, whether you’re focused on...

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How Journaling and Other Hobbies Can Benefit Your Mental Health-featured
Frankie Wallace
August 27, 2020

How Journaling and Other Hobbies Can Benefit Your Mental Health

How Journaling and Other Hobbies Can Benefit Your Mental Health
These days, scrolling through your social media feed or any news site is enough to make you want to pack up your belongings and head for some remote...
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How to Get Rid of Sentimental Clutter and Spend More Intentionally (+ Free Printables)-featured
Kayla Montgomery
August 24, 2020

How to Get Rid of Sentimental Clutter and Spend More Intentionally (+ Free Printables)

How to Get Rid of Sentimental Clutter and Spend More Intentionally (+ Free Printables)
Once a new season starts to approach, you may be looking to hit the refresh button. Whether that is to start up a new health challenge, or to gut...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
Recognizing and Healing the Inner Critic Through Journaling-featured
Valeria
August 21, 2020

Recognizing and Healing the Inner Critic Through Journaling

Recognizing and Healing the Inner Critic Through Journaling
This is one of my favorite passages in “Journaling Power: How to Create the Happy, Healthy Life You Want to Live” by Mari L. McCarthy. Through my...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
Going From Journaling to Blogging-featured
Patrick Bailey
August 13, 2020

Going From Journaling to Blogging

Going From Journaling to Blogging
For many writers, the journal or diary entry has always been a sacred space where one’s public- and private-self find expression. Hopes, dreams,...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
Journaling to Uncover What Spirit Wants Self to Know-featured
Marie Higgins
August 6, 2020

Journaling to Uncover What Spirit Wants Self to Know

Journaling to Uncover What Spirit Wants Self to Know
After birthing the chapters of Sprouting Spiritual Growth in January 2017, I was still in the zone, journaling every morning and continuing to create...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
My Journal Practice Is My Best Friend-featured
Elena McKee
July 27, 2020

My Journal Practice Is My Best Friend

My Journal Practice Is My Best Friend
I was born in May 1957, in the Chelyabinsk region of Russia with a military factory at Mayak and in September the same year there happened an atomic...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
Pros and Cons of Journaling on Physical Health Issues-featured
Samantha Kaylee
July 23, 2020

Pros and Cons of Journaling on Physical Health Issues

Pros and Cons of Journaling on Physical Health Issues
Do you like to keep a note of things? Is maintaining a diary or journaling your hobby? Ever wondered about the positive and negatives of...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
Saved by my Journal-featured
Kristen Rademacher
July 21, 2020

Saved by my Journal

Saved by my Journal
A week after my daughter was born still, a childhood friend gifted me with a new journal. Inside its front cover, she inscribed a message: "A place...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
Free Online Resources to Improve Your Writing-featured
Marielle Stroud
July 17, 2020

Free Online Resources to Improve Your Writing

Free Online Resources to Improve Your Writing
Hoping to improve your writing this summer? Coupon Chief created a huge list of free online writing courses that will help you boost your written...
Read More Details Click to view blog post

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