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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 Therapy

How to Declutter Your Life

Mari L. McCarthy

Clutter is one of those unavoidable things in life that we all face. Clutter, in all its forms, can creep up on you. One day everything seems easy and life is simple. The next, there’s all sorts of junk – physical, mental, and emotional – getting in your way, weighing you down, and adding stress to your life.

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys

Discovering Courage Through Journal Writing

Debbie DiPietro

Ever since I was a little girl, my journal has been my closest companion. In those early golden years of childhood, it was a place to draw, describe my day, and try my hand at poetry. Later it would...

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

How to Prevent Toxic People From Ruining Your Life

Mari L. McCarthy

We’ve all encountered toxic people at some point in our lives. You know the type: the constant complaining and negativity. The endless harping and hand-wringing about some problem that’s plaguing...

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys

The Power to Change Your Reality

Alison Laverty

How do you find the power to change your reality and to remain true to yourself, when everything around you is constantly changing?

I was raised in a dysfunctional family. From the age of four, I...

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

How To Manage Stress Caused by a Bad Marriage

Mari L. McCarthy

If you’re stuck in a bad marriage, you may be feeling very alone right now, but the truth is, you’re not alone. Marital stress is unfortunately quite common and divorce is a sad fact of life for many...

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys

3 Tips for a New-Year, New-You Journal at Any Time of Year

Melanie Faith

We’ve just had a turn of the calendar page and a celebratory season with friends, colleagues, and family. For the first time, this year I purchased a set of plastic New Year glasses where the year...

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

Why Exploring Your Work and Personal Personas is Essential to Your Growth & Well-being

Mari L. McCarthy

Are you one of those people who seems to end up doing everyone else’s job at work? Perhaps you’re the nurturing type everyone comes to with their problems, including work issues. Vital tasks don’t...

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys

Listening: The Cornerstone to Journaling

Anne Eston

There are many purposes for journaling---to keep a record of events, to heal, to vent, to create a vision for change, or to reach other mental and spiritual goals. When I took my first journaling...

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

Tips for Handling Relationship Stress With In-Laws

Mari L. McCarthy

Relationships are much like those famous Imperial Russian Faberge eggs – they can be incredibly beautiful but fragile. Handled with care, though, they can last more than a lifetime.

There are many...

Mari L. McCarthy

February 7, 2019

How to Declutter Your Life

Clutter is one of those unavoidable things in life that we all face. Clutter, in all its forms, can creep up on you. One day everything seems easy...

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Debbie DiPietro

February 5, 2019

Discovering Courage Through Journal Writing

Ever since I was a little girl, my journal has been my closest companion. In those early golden years of childhood, it was a place to draw, describe...

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How to Prevent Toxic People From Ruining Your Life-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

January 31, 2019

How to Prevent Toxic People From Ruining Your Life

We’ve all encountered toxic people at some point in our lives. You know the type: the constant complaining and negativity. The endless harping and...

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The Power to Change Your Reality-featured

Alison Laverty

January 29, 2019

The Power to Change Your Reality

How do you find the power to change your reality and to remain true to yourself, when everything around you is constantly changing? I was raised in a...

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How To Manage Stress Caused by a Bad Marriage-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

January 24, 2019

How To Manage Stress Caused by a Bad Marriage

If you’re stuck in a bad marriage, you may be feeling very alone right now, but the truth is, you’re not alone. Marital stress is unfortunately quite...

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3 Tips for a New-Year, New-You Journal at Any Time of Year-featured

Melanie Faith

January 22, 2019

3 Tips for a New-Year, New-You Journal at Any Time of Year

We’ve just had a turn of the calendar page and a celebratory season with friends, colleagues, and family. For the first time, this year I purchased a...

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