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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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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys, Health Matters

Super Sick: Making Peace with Chronic Illness!

Welcome to the blog tour for Super Sick: Making Peace with Chronic Illness! Each stop in the tour features a fictional character who experiences chronic pain or illness.

Often, when a book or movie represents a disability or illness, the entire thing is about that illness; think Forrest Gump or The Fault in Our Stars. These characters' identities are entirely swallowed up by their disabilities. In other shows, characters with illnesses are only there on the sidelines to "inspire" the protagonist, in the way that Tiny Tim’s only purpose in A Christmas Carol is to be pitied by Scrooge.

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys

The Refuge of a Lifelong Resource

I’ve kept a journal since my childhood years, starting in 1980. At this writing, that makes four decades. In those early days, it was called keeping a diary. I can recall owning some diaries that...

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys

The Necessity to Take Care of Yourself, Writer!

We know that the stories we are compelled to write are the ones that haunt us, that won’t let go. However, writing can overwhelm us when it awakens painful memories. Even when writing fiction, we...

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys, Money Matters

Connecting The Dots On Money Anxiety

Money makes me anxious, specifically excess money. After my bills are paid, any money left over causes me to feel uneasy because I'm not always sure what to do with it. I first started to experience...

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

An Introvert's Confidante

Journaling is not just for introverts, but it has indeed played such a prominent role in my life…helping me work through issues, providing a vehicle for celebrating magic moments, and sparking my own...

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys

Journaling to Become My Authentic Self

As I lay in bed waking up that morning in April of 2017, knowing that something was horribly wrong, the thought kept coming to my mind: They meant it for evil, but I meant it for good. It was...

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys

Journaling: The Gift of Self-Discovery

Journaling has been a transformative vehicle in my life since age twelve when I penned my first words of adolescent angst in my little white leatherette diary with a key. I write because I cannot not...

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

8 Ways To Improve Your Writing Skills And Land A Perfect Journalist Position

If you google “how to improve my writing skills,” you’ll come across tons of big promises.

Want to know the truth?

There is no magic trick or hack that can turn a bad writer into a journalist.

...

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Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys

Benefits of Journaling for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress

Probably most of us used to have a private diary during the teenage years. The reason why so many teenagers keep a diary is that it is a way to share all the thoughts, fears, and worries without...

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Super Sick: Making Peace with Chronic Illness!-featured
Allison Alexander
April 16, 2020

Super Sick: Making Peace with Chronic Illness!

Super Sick: Making Peace with Chronic Illness!
Welcome to the blog tour for Super Sick: Making Peace with Chronic Illness! Each stop in the tour features a fictional character who experiences...
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The Refuge of a Lifelong Resource-featured
Chris Vasiliadis
April 13, 2020

The Refuge of a Lifelong Resource

The Refuge of a Lifelong Resource
I’ve kept a journal since my childhood years, starting in 1980. At this writing, that makes four decades. In those early days, it was called keeping...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
The Necessity to Take Care of Yourself, Writer!-featured
Wendy Brown-Báez
April 9, 2020

The Necessity to Take Care of Yourself, Writer!

The Necessity to Take Care of Yourself, Writer!
We know that the stories we are compelled to write are the ones that haunt us, that won’t let go. However, writing can overwhelm us when it awakens...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
Connecting The Dots On Money Anxiety-featured
Tara C. Pray
April 6, 2020

Connecting The Dots On Money Anxiety

Connecting The Dots On Money Anxiety
Money makes me anxious, specifically excess money. After my bills are paid, any money left over causes me to feel uneasy because I'm not always sure...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
An Introvert's Confidante-featured
Steve Friedman
March 31, 2020

An Introvert's Confidante

An Introvert's Confidante
Journaling is not just for introverts, but it has indeed played such a prominent role in my life…helping me work through issues, providing a vehicle...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
Journaling to Become My Authentic Self-featured
Mary Rechkemmer-Meyer
March 23, 2020

Journaling to Become My Authentic Self

Journaling to Become My Authentic Self
As I lay in bed waking up that morning in April of 2017, knowing that something was horribly wrong, the thought kept coming to my mind: They meant it...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
Journaling: The Gift of Self-Discovery-featured
Billie Wade
March 19, 2020

Journaling: The Gift of Self-Discovery

Journaling: The Gift of Self-Discovery
Journaling has been a transformative vehicle in my life since age twelve when I penned my first words of adolescent angst in my little white...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
8 Ways To Improve Your Writing Skills And Land A Perfect Journalist Position-featured
Michael Gorman
March 16, 2020

8 Ways To Improve Your Writing Skills And Land A Perfect Journalist Position

8 Ways To Improve Your Writing Skills And Land A Perfect Journalist Position
If you google “how to improve my writing skills,” you’ll come across tons of big promises. Want to know the truth? There is no magic trick or hack...
Read More Details Click to view blog post
Benefits of Journaling for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress-featured
Sandra Larson
March 9, 2020

Benefits of Journaling for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress

Benefits of Journaling for Depression, Anxiety, and Stress
Probably most of us used to have a private diary during the teenage years. The reason why so many teenagers keep a diary is that it is a way to share...
Read More Details Click to view blog post

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