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 Therapy, Self Growth, Creative Journaling

Journal Power: Disengaging from Toxic Ties

Mari L. McCarthy

Journal writing helps us see how we cause our own suffering and how we can create our own happiness. It’s so easy to feel victimized and sorry for yourself, because life can be shockingly difficult, don’t we all know? With a solid journaling habit, though, we come to grips with our personal power to change and shape experience for the better.

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Journal Power for Internal Self Care

Mari L. McCarthy

The tool called internal self care empowers us to become most fully ourselves.

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

Journal Power and Personal Power

Mari L. McCarthy

It’s time to give these Journal Power posts a fresh viewpoint, after about a year of weekly entries. Thinking about how to change things up led me to the following.

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Journaling Power: Losing Self-Loathing

Mari L. McCarthy

Does it happen with you sometimes? Are there times when you just don’t like yourself? When you feel like a big disappointment to yourself; like you can’t do anything right; like you’re a colossal...

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