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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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Discovering Courage Through Journal Writing

Debbie DiPietro

Ever since I was a little girl, my journal has been my closest companion. In those early golden years of childhood, it was a place to draw, describe my day, and try my hand at poetry. Later it would be my sanctuary to unload teenaged angst on my long daily bus commute to and from school. In my early adult years, the pages were filled with dreams and affirmations for what I wanted my life to be. I recorded my challenges and celebrations and I did not know it at the time but in many ways my younger self created the life I enjoy now. That is how powerful journal writing is.

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The Power to Change Your Reality

Alison Laverty

How do you find the power to change your reality and to remain true to yourself, when everything around you is constantly changing?

I was raised in a dysfunctional family. From the age of four, I...

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3 Tips for a New-Year, New-You Journal at Any Time of Year

Melanie Faith

We’ve just had a turn of the calendar page and a celebratory season with friends, colleagues, and family. For the first time, this year I purchased a set of plastic New Year glasses where the year...

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Listening: The Cornerstone to Journaling

Anne Eston

There are many purposes for journaling---to keep a record of events, to heal, to vent, to create a vision for change, or to reach other mental and spiritual goals. When I took my first journaling...

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Therapeutic Writing Saved My Life

Philip Swensen

“The pen is mightier than the sword,” I’m sure you’ve been exposed to these words at some point, but have you ever given the quote any real thought as to what means? How could a pen possibly be...

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7 Ways Writing Helps Find the Harmony in Life

John Landrum

Many people today spend their time trying to achieve seemingly impossible tasks. They keep on attempting new ways to allocate the same amount of time to all areas of their life. From creating time...

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How journaling helped me grow my career as a wedding celebrant?

Bronte Price

Being a wedding celebrant isn’t a forced job, it is out of passion and interest. Unlike other jobs, wedding celebrants go through a course of training. In the training, we learn about public speaking...

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How I Benefited from Journaling

Maisie Potter

Before I started this journey, I imagined journaling as scribbling down notes about your high-school sweetheart, something in the form of ‘Dear diary’. It sounds familiar, doesn’t it?

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How Journaling Made Me a Writer

Elizabeth Garber

Sharing your experiences with others is both an opportunity for your own self-reflection and a chance to give back. By sharing how you have used journaling to cope with difficult life experiences,...

Discovering Courage Through Journal Writing-featured

Debbie DiPietro

February 5, 2019

Discovering Courage Through Journal Writing

Ever since I was a little girl, my journal has been my closest companion. In those early golden years of childhood, it was a place to draw, describe...

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The Power to Change Your Reality-featured

Alison Laverty

January 29, 2019

The Power to Change Your Reality

How do you find the power to change your reality and to remain true to yourself, when everything around you is constantly changing? I was raised in a...

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3 Tips for a New-Year, New-You Journal at Any Time of Year-featured

Melanie Faith

January 22, 2019

3 Tips for a New-Year, New-You Journal at Any Time of Year

We’ve just had a turn of the calendar page and a celebratory season with friends, colleagues, and family. For the first time, this year I purchased a...

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Listening: The Cornerstone to Journaling-featured

Anne Eston

January 15, 2019

Listening: The Cornerstone to Journaling

There are many purposes for journaling---to keep a record of events, to heal, to vent, to create a vision for change, or to reach other mental and...

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Therapeutic Writing Saved My Life-featured

Philip Swensen

January 8, 2019

Therapeutic Writing Saved My Life

“The pen is mightier than the sword,” I’m sure you’ve been exposed to these words at some point, but have you ever given the quote any real thought...

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7 Ways Writing Helps Find the Harmony in Life-featured

John Landrum

December 23, 2018

7 Ways Writing Helps Find the Harmony in Life

Many people today spend their time trying to achieve seemingly impossible tasks. They keep on attempting new ways to allocate the same amount of time...

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