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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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Journal Writing Tips to Treat the Tricksters

Mari L. McCarthy

You probably already know that journaling can be powerful self-discovery and self-development tool, but journaling can be even more than that. Your journal is your confidant; you can write whatever you want, and it will never judge you. For that reason, it is the perfect space for problem solving -- exploring challenges you are facing, no matter how small or large.

The next time you feel you are at a crossroads, take the following steps to use problem-solving writing to help you choose the right path.

1. Begin an entry with a question or a problem you want to solve.

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

Journal to Increase Productivity

Mari L. McCarthy

Here's a remarkable thing: when we focus the mind and heart, anything is possible. Have you noticed that? On the other hand, when we don't focus on something constructive, everything shrinks.

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From Journal Entry to Flash Memoir

Christine Houser

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Journaling Ideas to Commemorate National Anti-Boredom Week

Mari L. McCarthy

Admit it: you find yourself saying that you’re bored at least a couple times a week. We all do, and we all aren’t as productive as we want to be sometimes. That’s fine every once in awhile, but just...

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Do You Journal To Capture Life or Improve It?

Mari L. McCarthy

When I started a website on journaling two years ago, I naively thought that all journaling was basically the same. You just sit down and write the thoughts and feelings that come to you, right?

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What Can You Learn About Journaling from Virginia Woolf?

Mari L. McCarthy

Virginia Woolf started keeping a diary at age 33, and she continued journaling until four days before her death in 1941. However, Woolf didn’t use her diaries just as a written record of her...

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3 Ideas for Keeping a Wedded Bliss Journal

Mari L. McCarthy

It’s summer, and love is in the air. Are you engaged and planning to be married within the next year or so? Planning a wedding can be an exhilarating, yet stressful experience. Keeping a wedding...

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Journaling for Less Stress

Mari L. McCarthy

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

Journal Writing as My Medicine and Muse

Mari L. McCarthy

Writing has evolved as my medicine and muse since that first poem magically poured out of me at age eight. In my early 20s, journaling became my medicine –helping me to understand my issues and...

Journal Writing Tips to Treat the Tricksters-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

July 16, 2013

Journal Writing Tips to Treat the Tricksters

You probably already know that journaling can be powerful self-discovery and self-development tool, but journaling can be even more than that. Your...

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Mari L. McCarthy

July 12, 2013

Journal to Increase Productivity

Here's a remarkable thing: when we focus the mind and heart, anything is possible. Have you noticed that? On the other hand, when we don't focus on...

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