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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!

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys, Journaling for Men

How Does Journaling Make Me the Best I Can Be?

Dave DeCoursey

My name is Dave, and I'm an evocative, transformational life coach. What this means is I help people discover their dream life and help them understand how to move towards it. One of my most useful tools in moving towards my dream life are my journals. I keep a few different ones, some notebooks and others online. The reason I keep both types is, well, I never learned how to write legibly, which means I have a hard time going back to read them.

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

Men: The Advantage of Understanding Your Personal Identity

Mari L. McCarthy

Men have perhaps never been so unsure of themselves as they are today. Definitions of what it means to be a man have been turned upside-down. The #MeToo movement has made even decent, respectful men...

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

An Almost Foolproof Way to Get in Touch with Your Emotions for a More Productive Life

Mari L. McCarthy

For most men, the phrase “getting in touch with your emotions” is an eyeball-rolling cliché that conjures up images of a weepy girly-man sobbing over some imagined slight. In reality, having real...

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys

Journaling to Let Go of Worry and Cultivate Optimism

Melia Dicker

I was born a worrier into a long line of worriers. As a child, I’d often lie awake at night, terrified that burglars would break into my house, or that I’d fail the upcoming test at school the next...

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

How to Develop Great Relationships that Enrich Your Life

Mari L. McCarthy

We humans are a social species. For the most part, we crave relationships with others. This is both an emotional and physical need, evolved over millennia to help protect and nurture our vulnerable...

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys

Always on the Sunny Side?

Crystal Otto

One of the many blessings of being born in the 1970's to older parents is my love of music spans from polka to metal and everything in between. I can say I've seen Johnny Cash live and received a...

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Self Growth

Smart Ways to Shake Off Elements in Your Life That Hold You Back

Mari L. McCarthy

We’ve all heard the phrase, “you are what you eat,” but have you realized that you become what you think? It’s true. The power of thought – positive and negative – is remarkable.

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys

What about my journals after i die?

Tara C. Pray

What will happen to my journals after I die?

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

How to Ensure That the Most Important Things in Your Life Get the Most Attention

Mari L. McCarthy

Being frazzled every day can seem like a standard-operating procedure for many of us as we get pulled in different directions by family, friends, co-workers, and the myriad obligations that seem to...

Dave DeCoursey

May 27, 2019

How Does Journaling Make Me the Best I Can Be?

My name is Dave, and I'm an evocative, transformational life coach. What this means is I help people discover their dream life and help them...

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Men: The Advantage of Understanding Your Personal Identity-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

May 23, 2019

Men: The Advantage of Understanding Your Personal Identity

Men have perhaps never been so unsure of themselves as they are today. Definitions of what it means to be a man have been turned upside-down. The...

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An Almost Foolproof Way to Get in Touch with Your Emotions for a More Productive Life-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

May 16, 2019

An Almost Foolproof Way to Get in Touch with Your Emotions for a More Productive Life

For most men, the phrase “getting in touch with your emotions” is an eyeball-rolling cliché that conjures up images of a weepy girly-man sobbing over...

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Melia Dicker

May 13, 2019

Journaling to Let Go of Worry and Cultivate Optimism

I was born a worrier into a long line of worriers. As a child, I’d often lie awake at night, terrified that burglars would break into my house, or...

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How to Develop Great Relationships that Enrich Your Life-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

May 9, 2019

How to Develop Great Relationships that Enrich Your Life

We humans are a social species. For the most part, we crave relationships with others. This is both an emotional and physical need, evolved over...

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Crystal Otto

May 6, 2019

Always on the Sunny Side?

One of the many blessings of being born in the 1970's to older parents is my love of music spans from polka to metal and everything in between. I can...

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Smart Ways to Shake Off Elements in Your Life That Hold You Back-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

May 2, 2019

Smart Ways to Shake Off Elements in Your Life That Hold You Back

We’ve all heard the phrase, “you are what you eat,” but have you realized that you become what you think? It’s true. The power of thought – positive...

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