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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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How Journaling Helped Me Manifest a Life I Love.

Cheryl Sutherland

I first got asked to start journaling at different personal growth seminars I went to. Facing my fears, crying over past trauma, pushing through fears… easy… journaling was the WORST THING EVER. It was a supreme level of vulnerability that I didn’t let myself go to until I decided to change my life.

It took me a very long time to get into journaling. I inherently had so much resistance to it for all the reasons journaling is so good for you.

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The Therapy Journal: A Novel

Steven Wineman

A psychotherapist, Becky Hoffman, has her own untold history of severe childhood trauma. Lathsamy, Becky's client, as a child was enslaved for three years by a sex trafficking ring in Thailand. An... Read More

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The Healing Power of Journaling

Britta Eckhardt-Potter

I have been journaling since I was a child. I used to have this really pretty journal when I was a about 10 years old, which was pink and purple and had sparkles all over it. The most important thing... Read More

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Finding Balance Through Journaling

Dima Dupéré

I started journaling regularly in my early teens. For me it was a chance to express what I had difficulty saying out loud - voice my questions about life, friendships, hopes and concerns one... Read More

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Courageous Journaling

Antoinette Truglio Martin

Originally I began journaling as proof of my writing ambitions. I was a young teen—maybe younger. Marbled composition books, diaries with locks, and beautifully bound journals were cluttered with... Read More

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Journaling—My Launching Pad to a Healthy Life

Jenny Patton

When I was seven, I made my own journal out of legal pad paper—a little book that sparked a passion forwriting down my thoughts, feelings and desires. E.M. Forster asks, “How do I know what I think... Read More

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Information (Age) Overload? Grab a Journal and Write!

Will Donnelly

Most of us are now constantly overrun with information, and our minds are discovering the downside to the “information age.” It’s never been easier to get mentally foggy and enmeshed in our daily... Read More

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The Power of Affirmative Journaling

Casey Demchak

The first 100-story building was not designed and built by someone with a 50-story imagination. Now, I don’t know who this person was, but I’m certain before this building existed, the designer... Read More

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My Journaling Journey

Anthony Billoni

Maybe turning 50 was a flashing yellow light. Maybe I was afraid the light was about to turn red – on reaching significant goals I had set for myself.

What came to be my daily journaling habit was...

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Cheryl Sutherland

November 28, 2017

How Journaling Helped Me Manifest a Life I Love.

I first got asked to start journaling at different personal growth seminars I went to. Facing my fears, crying over past trauma, pushing through...

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Steven Wineman

November 21, 2017

The Therapy Journal: A Novel

A psychotherapist, Becky Hoffman, has her own untold history of severe childhood trauma. Lathsamy, Becky's client, as a child was enslaved for three...

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The Healing Power of Journaling-featured

Britta Eckhardt-Potter

November 16, 2017

The Healing Power of Journaling

I have been journaling since I was a child. I used to have this really pretty journal when I was a about 10 years old, which was pink and purple and...

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Finding Balance Through Journaling-featured

Dima Dupéré

October 25, 2017

Finding Balance Through Journaling

I started journaling regularly in my early teens. For me it was a chance to express what I had difficulty saying out loud - voice my questions about...

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Antoinette Truglio Martin

October 9, 2017

Courageous Journaling

Originally I began journaling as proof of my writing ambitions. I was a young teen—maybe younger. Marbled composition books, diaries with locks, and...

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Journaling—My Launching Pad to a Healthy Life-featured

Jenny Patton

October 3, 2017

Journaling—My Launching Pad to a Healthy Life

When I was seven, I made my own journal out of legal pad paper—a little book that sparked a passion forwriting down my thoughts, feelings and...

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Information (Age) Overload? Grab a Journal and Write!-featured

Will Donnelly

September 26, 2017

Information (Age) Overload? Grab a Journal and Write!

Most of us are now constantly overrun with information, and our minds are discovering the downside to the “information age.” It’s never been easier...

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