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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

Road-Tested Journaling Exercises: How to Keep a Travel Journal

Traveling is one of the best antidotes to writer’s block. Whether you are heading to a faraway, exotic land or to the next town over, a change of scenery can be just what you need to kickstart new ideas and get you scribbling furiously in your journal.

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

Journal Therapy Cure Tips The Scales in Your Favor

Here are our most recent weekly Journal Therapy Cure Tips which you can get delivered to your mailbox each Thursday morning. Sign up here.

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

Journaling Your "Bucket List": What's on Yours?

In the movie “The Bucket List,” Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman played terminally ill men who go on a road trip to cross items off their list of things to do before they “kick the bucket” – from...

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

Journaling Prompts You to Answer that Burning Question

What are your reasons for keeping a personal journal? Does it help you sort through your thoughts and emotions? Does it keep you focused on your goals and dreams? There are many individual reasons...

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

7 Inspiration Firestarters for the Creative Mind

I like to consider myself a pretty creative person. Heck, I do it for a living. However, I've noticed that creativity and creative ideas tend to present themselves whenever they see fit, and rarely...

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Take my '27 Days of Journaling' Survey, Please!

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

Journaling Therapy Tips #79, #80 and #81

      #79 * TOY STORY *  What's your favorite toy? Visit a toy department and see which item chooses you. Bring it home with you and introduce it to your Journal and vice versa.

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Creative Journaling

Journaling Personal Best: Paper or Plastic?

                                             Pen or Computer?

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Creative Journaling With Art: Making a Self-Portrait

Your journal is a multi-faceted reflection of yourself—your triumphs, struggles, heartaches and dreams. Through your journal entries, you can follow your evolution as a person and see how you have...

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Mari L. McCarthy
May 10, 2011

Road-Tested Journaling Exercises: How to Keep a Travel Journal

Road-Tested Journaling Exercises: How to Keep a Travel Journal
Traveling is one of the best antidotes to writer’s block. Whether you are heading to a faraway, exotic land or to the next town over, a change of...
Mari L. McCarthy
May 6, 2011

Journal Therapy Cure Tips The Scales in Your Favor

Journal Therapy Cure Tips The Scales in Your Favor
Here are our most recent weekly Journal Therapy Cure Tips which you can get delivered to your mailbox each Thursday morning. Sign up here.
Mari L. McCarthy
April 15, 2011

Journaling Your "Bucket List": What's on Yours?

Journaling Your "Bucket List": What's on Yours?
In the movie “The Bucket List,” Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman played terminally ill men who go on a road trip to cross items off their list of...
Mari L. McCarthy
April 4, 2011

Journaling Prompts You to Answer that Burning Question

Journaling Prompts You to Answer that Burning Question
What are your reasons for keeping a personal journal? Does it help you sort through your thoughts and emotions? Does it keep you focused on your...
Mari L. McCarthy
March 25, 2011

7 Inspiration Firestarters for the Creative Mind

7 Inspiration Firestarters for the Creative Mind
I like to consider myself a pretty creative person. Heck, I do it for a living. However, I've noticed that creativity and creative ideas tend to...
Mari L. McCarthy
March 21, 2011

Journaling Therapy Tips #79, #80 and #81

Journaling Therapy Tips #79, #80 and #81
#79 * TOY STORY * What's your favorite toy? Visit a toy department and see which item chooses you. Bring it home with you and introduce it to your...
Mari L. McCarthy
March 4, 2011

Creative Journaling With Art: Making a Self-Portrait

Creative Journaling With Art: Making a Self-Portrait
Your journal is a multi-faceted reflection of yourself—your triumphs, struggles, heartaches and dreams. Through your journal entries, you can follow...

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