Mari's Journaling Power Blog | CreateWriteNow

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 | Journaling Journeys

Remove the Taxing Influences of Bad Relationships

Joan Porte

How I Released Toxic Relationships with Mari

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys

Reinventing Myself Through Journaling

Belinda Witzenhausen

My Story: I was introduced to journaling at a young age, my mother was an avid artist, reader and writer, I guess she passed her love of those pursuits onto me. Being an only child and not having...

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys

Spring 2019: Becoming a Journal Gardener

Carol Ohmart-Behan

After enduring Winter's overly-long stay here in this corner of the world, there is giddy rejoicing at April's much anticipated arrival with abundant sunshine at last and the stirring of new life. It...

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My Spiritual Sunrise

Renee Howard Cassese

I have been journaling, studying journaling, and teaching journaling for twenty-five years. I’ve written morning pages a la Julia Cameron for twenty years. Here’s what I’ve learned. There are about...

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How I journaled through fear to write my book

Greta Solomon

In my writing workshops and online courses, we do a lot of fear-busting. And I teach my magic technique learned from my songwriting days. This gets you back in a balanced state of mind, writing...

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

A New Tool for Therapeutic Journaling: Nested Meditations

Kevin Anderson

In late summer of 2017, two days before our daughter was to be married, I found myself in a four-hour meeting with my siblings deciding whether we should let my mother’s doctors proceed with...

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys

How I Discovered The Power of Journaling

B. Lynn Goodwin

Why should you take time from your busy day to journal? Because stories rise up out of journaling, and even if they don’t, your story matters. No one can tell your story but you.

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Journeys

The Way Journaling Has Changed My College Life

Daniela McVicker

I remember well my college days. Fast-paced lifestyle, numerous plans and goals, and constant emotional confusion could simply sum up my essence during those years. Most of the time I just felt lost...

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Journaling Through Life’s Transitions

Kay Butzin

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Remove the Taxing Influences of Bad Relationships-featured

Joan Porte

April 15, 2019

Remove the Taxing Influences of Bad Relationships

How I Released Toxic Relationships with Mari

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Reinventing Myself Through Journaling-featured

Belinda Witzenhausen

April 8, 2019

Reinventing Myself Through Journaling

My Story: I was introduced to journaling at a young age, my mother was an avid artist, reader and writer, I guess she passed her love of those...

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Spring 2019: Becoming a Journal Gardener-featured

Carol Ohmart-Behan

April 1, 2019

Spring 2019: Becoming a Journal Gardener

After enduring Winter's overly-long stay here in this corner of the world, there is giddy rejoicing at April's much anticipated arrival with abundant...

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Renee Howard Cassese

March 25, 2019

My Spiritual Sunrise

I have been journaling, studying journaling, and teaching journaling for twenty-five years. I’ve written morning pages a la Julia Cameron for twenty...

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Greta Solomon

March 11, 2019

How I journaled through fear to write my book

In my writing workshops and online courses, we do a lot of fear-busting. And I teach my magic technique learned from my songwriting days. This gets...

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A New Tool for Therapeutic Journaling: Nested Meditations-featured

Kevin Anderson

March 4, 2019

A New Tool for Therapeutic Journaling: Nested Meditations

In late summer of 2017, two days before our daughter was to be married, I found myself in a four-hour meeting with my siblings deciding whether we...

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How I Discovered The Power of Journaling-featured

B. Lynn Goodwin

February 25, 2019

How I Discovered The Power of Journaling

Why should you take time from your busy day to journal? Because stories rise up out of journaling, and even if they don’t, your story matters. No one...

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