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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 | 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 seem to get completed unless you get involved, regardless of whether it’s your responsibility or not.

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

Therapeutic Writing Saved My Life

Philip Swensen

“The pen is mightier than the sword,” I’m sure you’ve been exposed to these words at some point, but have you ever given the quote any real thought as to what means? How could a pen possibly be...

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

Tips for Managing the Stress of Being the Family Go-To Person

Mari L. McCarthy

Every family seems to have one. That go-to person everyone turns to when they need something, want something, have something that needs to be fixed or done RIGHT NOW. Some of us who are go-to...

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Therapy

How to Fix Personal Money Problems Without Breaking the Bank

Mari L. McCarthy

According to a study by the American Psychological Association, 75 percent of Americans experience some kind of financial stress and almost a quarter of the US population feels extreme financial...

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

7 Ways Writing Helps Find the Harmony in Life

John Landrum

Many people today spend their time trying to achieve seemingly impossible tasks. They keep on attempting new ways to allocate the same amount of time to all areas of their life. From creating time...

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Therapy

Eliminating Stress: Less Talking, More Writing

Mari L. McCarthy

To address and successfully overcome any challenge in life it’s critical to understand it first. Knowledge is power – understanding something enables you to act with certainty and success. It’s...

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

How journaling helped me grow my career as a wedding celebrant?

Bronte Price

Being a wedding celebrant isn’t a forced job, it is out of passion and interest. Unlike other jobs, wedding celebrants go through a course of training. In the training, we learn about public speaking...

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

Mari L. McCarthy

January 17, 2019

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

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...

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Listening: The Cornerstone to Journaling-featured

Anne Eston

January 15, 2019

Listening: The Cornerstone to Journaling

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...

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Tips for Handling Relationship Stress With In-Laws-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

January 11, 2019

Tips for Handling Relationship Stress With In-Laws

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

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Therapeutic Writing Saved My Life-featured

Philip Swensen

January 8, 2019

Therapeutic Writing Saved My Life

“The pen is mightier than the sword,” I’m sure you’ve been exposed to these words at some point, but have you ever given the quote any real thought...

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Tips for Managing the Stress of Being the Family Go-To Person-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

January 3, 2019

Tips for Managing the Stress of Being the Family Go-To Person

Every family seems to have one. That go-to person everyone turns to when they need something, want something, have something that needs to be fixed...

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Mari L. McCarthy

December 27, 2018

How to Fix Personal Money Problems Without Breaking the Bank

According to a study by the American Psychological Association, 75 percent of Americans experience some kind of financial stress and almost a quarter...

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7 Ways Writing Helps Find the Harmony in Life-featured

John Landrum

December 23, 2018

7 Ways Writing Helps Find the Harmony in Life

Many people today spend their time trying to achieve seemingly impossible tasks. They keep on attempting new ways to allocate the same amount of time...

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