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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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Journaling Your Seasonal Rituals

Mari L. McCarthy

The autumnal equinox just passed this weekend, so fall has officially arrived! Moving from one season to another is invigorating; it’s as if your senses perk up and pay attention as you witness changes in the natural world and experience your own personal rituals.

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Participate in a Global Journaling Event: The Sketchbook Project!

Mari L. McCarthy

Attention all creative journalers! Your art journals, travelogues, memoirs, to-do lists, short stories and other masterpieces are wanted to join a traveling exhibit with the Brooklyn Art Library.

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Wednesday Journaling Writes: Journal Your No-Media Diet

Mari L. McCarthy

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I am overwhelmed by the constant onslaught of media: the multitude of messages coming at me via email, telephone, television, internet and all the rest.

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Journaling: Stretch Your Creative Writing Muscles

Mari L. McCarthy

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Wednesday Journaling Writes: What’s Your Mood?

Mari L. McCarthy

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Create a Family Memory Journal

Mari L. McCarthy

As you get older, time seems to fly by more quickly with every passing year. If you have children, you know that one minute they are taking their first unsteady steps and the next they are begging...

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Wednesday Journaling Writes: How Your Journal Becomes Your Guide

Mari L. McCarthy

We journal to reflect on past experience, but it’s pretty cool how journal writing can become an indispensable tool for guiding our steps in the present and into the future, as well.

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Journaling: What's your Personal Philosophy?

Mari L. McCarthy

When you were a student, you spent a good deal of time studying the thoughts of philosophers and writers in history. Along the way, you might have encountered a few ideas that struck a chord with...

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