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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!

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Therapy, Self Growth, Creative Journaling

Journal Writing For Love Junkies

Mari L. McCarthy

Are you looking for a special person in your life?

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Therapy, Creative Journaling

Journaling: I Now Sing in Public Every Chance I Get

Mari L. McCarthy

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The Nonfiction Book Proposal Demystified: It’s a Business Plan

Mari L. McCarthy

About a year ago, I was celebrating 2 years of doing daily ambidextrous Morning Pages when a universal message appeared in them one day saying, “it’s time to share your story.” What, me write a book?...

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Therapy, Creative Journaling

Keep a Journal in Your Recovery Tool Box

Mari L. McCarthy

Recovery is hard work over the long haul. Fortunately it begins with something positive - admitting there is a problem. From that point, a wealth of tools has developed over the decades since Bill W....

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Therapy, Creative Journaling

Journaling Challenge: What Are You Weighting For?

Mari L. McCarthy

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Therapy

How to write about very sad and challenging experiences and still leave the reader feeling hopeful

Mari L. McCarthy

I'm pleased to welcome Linda Appleman Shapiro,our current featured author touring with WOW Women on Writing. Learn more about Shapiro and her memoir, She's Not Herself: A Psychotherapist's Journey...

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Therapy, Health

Reflective Moments in Memoir

Mari L. McCarthy

by David W. Berner

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Journaling and Your Legacy

Mari L. McCarthy

There are many qualities of journal writing that make it ideal for anyone seeking understanding. For baby boomers, journaling may become an indispensable tool for understanding the process of aging.

Mari's Journaling Power Blog | Journaling Therapy, Creative Journaling

Journal Power: Opening Up to Dreams

Mari L. McCarthy

Someone said recently, “Dream as if your life depended on it; because it does.”

Continuing the discussion about baby boomers and how we are now facing our (ahem) older years, this quote is a good...

Journal Writing For Love Junkies-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

April 15, 2015

Journal Writing For Love Junkies

Are you looking for a special person in your life?

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Mari L. McCarthy

April 1, 2015

Journaling: I Now Sing in Public Every Chance I Get

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The Nonfiction Book Proposal Demystified: It’s a Business Plan-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

March 30, 2015

The Nonfiction Book Proposal Demystified: It’s a Business Plan

About a year ago, I was celebrating 2 years of doing daily ambidextrous Morning Pages when a universal message appeared in them one day saying, “it’s...

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Keep a Journal in Your Recovery Tool Box-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

February 10, 2015

Keep a Journal in Your Recovery Tool Box

Recovery is hard work over the long haul. Fortunately it begins with something positive - admitting there is a problem. From that point, a wealth of...

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Journaling Challenge: What Are You Weighting For?-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

January 14, 2015

Journaling Challenge: What Are You Weighting For?

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How to write about very sad and challenging experiences and still leave the reader feeling hopeful-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

December 1, 2014

How to write about very sad and challenging experiences and still leave the reader feeling hopeful

I'm pleased to welcome Linda Appleman Shapiro,our current featured author touring with WOW Women on Writing. Learn more about Shapiro and her memoir,...

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