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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 | Self Growth, Creative Journaling, Health

Circling to the Truth in Journaling

Mari L. McCarthy

by Cheryl Hulseapple

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

Journal Power: Details Matter but the Big Picture Rules!

Mari L. McCarthy

I was thinking the other day about how journaling is exquisitely helpful for two things that represent opposite ends of a spectrum.

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

Journal Power: Harmony at Home

Mari L. McCarthy

I’m sure many of you use journaling to keep an even keel when it comes to relationships in your household, with your family members or other housemates who probably know more about you than anyone...

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

Unwrapping Self: How Journaling Can Reunite You with Your Inner Child

Jenny Beatrice

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

Journal Power: What Is My Purpose?

Mari L. McCarthy

Often, a big part of depression is feeling a lack of direction and purpose. If this has become an issue for you, use journaling to better understand what's going on.

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

Journal Power: Letting Go of Insecurities

Mari L. McCarthy

We’ve talked a lot about fear in this blog. How you can use journal writing to gain control over it. At the request of a reader and fellow journal writer, today I’m approaching a cousin of fear:...

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

How You Ask the Question in Your Journal

Mari L. McCarthy

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

Journal Power: 7 Steps to Build Courage

Mari L. McCarthy

What an old-fashioned word courage is! We think of it in relation to our troops overseas, but don’t often apply it to ourselves in everyday life. Yet it’s one of the most revered virtues a person...

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

Journaling Power: Learning How to Say Goodbye

Mari L. McCarthy

When life brings you to the brink of goodbye, lean on your journal writing to give you strength for the passage.

Circling to the Truth in Journaling-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

July 29, 2014

Circling to the Truth in Journaling

by Cheryl Hulseapple

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Journal Power: Details Matter but the Big Picture Rules!-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

July 23, 2014

Journal Power: Details Matter but the Big Picture Rules!

I was thinking the other day about how journaling is exquisitely helpful for two things that represent opposite ends of a spectrum.

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Mari L. McCarthy

July 16, 2014

Journal Power: Harmony at Home

I’m sure many of you use journaling to keep an even keel when it comes to relationships in your household, with your family members or other...

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Unwrapping Self: How Journaling Can Reunite You with Your Inner Child-featured

Jenny Beatrice

July 15, 2014

Unwrapping Self: How Journaling Can Reunite You with Your Inner Child

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Journal Power: What Is My Purpose?-featured

Mari L. McCarthy

July 9, 2014

Journal Power: What Is My Purpose?

Often, a big part of depression is feeling a lack of direction and purpose. If this has become an issue for you, use journaling to better understand...

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