Journaling Power: How To Create the Happy, Healthy, Life You Want to Live - Softcover

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9780692199831: Journaling Power: How To Create the Happy, Healthy, Life You Want to Live

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ISBN 10: 0692199837 ISBN 13: 9780692199831

Publisher: Hasmark Publishing

2018 COVR Visionary Health and Healing Award Winner

Nonfiction Authors Association Silver Award Winner

"Journaling Power is a candid, beautifully-written self-help book, filled with warmth, wit and wisdom." Dennis Palumbo, psychotherapist and author, Writing From the Inside Out"Remarkable, riveting and transformative." Peggy McColl, New York Times best-selling author

Journaling Power teaches you how to put the ultimate self-healing tool right at your fingertips--journaling. You'll discover how daily pen-to-paper journal writing leads to self-growth and life-changing transformation. You'll also learn that numerous scientific medical studies prove journaling unleashes a healing agent that empowers your life in ways you've never imagined.
Mari L. McCarthy shares her own personal story of health and healing and provides step-by-step guidance on how to use your own Journaling Power Practice to:

Reduce physical pain and overcome illness

Heal emotional wounds from past traumas

Resolve inner conflicts and create self-compassion

Conquer limiting beliefs and fears

Reconnect with your inner healer

Reduce stress and find inspiration

Set realistic goals--and discover the motivation to make them happen

Create the happiest, healthiest life for your Self.

With Journaling Power, you'll use the transformative power of expressive writing and therapeutic journaling to heal from stressful life events like chronic illness, job loss, divorce or grief. Mari L. McCarthy guides you on a holistic journey of well-being and self-care and shows you how to put yourself first--allowing you to lead a life of joy, compassion, creativity and growth.
Find yourself a notebook and pen and a quiet, comfortable space--and use Journaling Power's writing prompts, morning pages and journaling exercises to unlock the strength of your unconscious mind.
"Mari used journaling herself to relieve her symptoms of MS. In this book, she reveals the full power of journaling, not only for people who have an illness, but for anyone, actually, who simply wants to unlock their personal creativity or find some more meaning and purpose in their life." David Hamilton, PhD, Author, How Your Mind Can Heal Your Body

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About the Author:

Mari L. McCarthy is the Founder and Chief Inspiration Officer of CreateWriteNow.com. She is the author/creator of multiple eWorkbooks and Journaling Challenge programs that teach people throughout the world how to heal, grow, and transform their lives through the power of journal writing therapy.

Review:

NONFICTION AUTHORS ASSOCIATION REVIEWJournaling Power is a fascinating book that showcases the wide-ranging positive effects of journaling. Supported with both scientific research and the author's own personal journey, the book details the many ways that journaling can support individual self-development, healing, goal setting, and personal growth.
The author describes her personal journey in a way that invites the reader to feel her courage, resiliency, and durability without seeking pity, commiseration, or sadness in return. Hers has not been an easy path, yet that is not the point of the book. Rather, she shares how he has gained strength and sturdiness through journaling and used this technique to overcome what for many would be a debilitating disease.
This was a pleasant book to read and leaves this reader with much to reflect upon and ponder. - Nonfiction Authors Association Book Awards Program

KIRKUS REVIEWIn this debut manual, a writer examines how journaling can create spiritual, emotional, and intellectual awareness and wellness.
McCarthy understands the ability to overcome internal struggles through self-reflection exercises. Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in adulthood, she was forced to relearn basic activities like walking, cooking, and even holding a pen. Through journaling, she discovered the time and patience she needed to heal, inside and out. Her book targets readers who seek a practice that will help them center their thoughts, emotions, and principles daily. The author weaves in personal stories, specific exercises, and useful tips that spotlight the common effects and benefits of journaling, such as putting the "Inner Critic" onto the page, learning to recognize automatic negative thoughts that are products of habits, and transforming the "should" voice into a potent, meaningful one. She recommends many techniques, such as "Morning Pages" and "Night Notes," that should keep readers tapped into their conscious selves rather than the emotional gusts of the day. McCarthy provides prompts but emphasizes that journaling has few rules. The only ones she suggests: journal by hand and engage in the practice daily. "Putting the pen to paper is a whole body experience," she asserts, explaining in depth how the journaling process creates a more intimate interaction with the page and forces more succinct, purposeful thoughts due to the physical exertion required. While the book mainly concentrates on journaling, the author also covers an array of other important practices, such as mindful eating, breathing exercises, and expressions of gratitude. She even explains how journaling can become intertwined with healthy eating and other activities that can change a reader's life if performed daily. In total, the work succeeds at adding something fresh, precise, and compelling to the genre: a focused manual that serves as a coach but allows for freedom, exploration, and creative interpretation.
This powerful guide offers journaling exercises that promote alertness, self-healing, reflection, and appreciation.

BLUE INK REVIEWJournaling Power seamlessly blends memoir with journaling strategies, exercises and a discussion of the benefits of journaling, adding elements of scientific research and mini-case studies. Each of the book's ingredients is provided in just the right amount, creating a perfectly-balanced presentation about the power of therapeutic journaling.
Mari L. McCarthy may have been the least likely person to come across the benefits of journaling--and, if she had, she likely wouldn't have tried it had it not been for the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. McCarthy had been an extremely busy Fortune 1000 consultant, traveling the globe for work and seldom giving her body a rest.
Then, she became "floored, quite literally, by an ongoing health crisis" and ultimately turned to journaling. Forced to slow down by health challenges, she was also forced to face negative emotions she'd carried with her since childhood. And, after a year or two of journaling, she found that she no longer needed prescription medicines to manage her previously-disabling multiple sclerosis. Why? Journaling had also allowed her to find a "door into my soul."
McCarthy shares relevant memoir information throughout while guiding readers into developing their own unique journaling practices, providing specific exercises for them to try and encouraging them to modify the tasks to suit their own purposes. To tame someone's "Inner Critic," for example, she describes a freewriting journaling exercise to help identify negative self-image messages and transform them into positive ones. Another exercise guides readers through healing negative relationships with food; a third example focuses on gratitude, while another targets spirituality.
Journaling Power is sensitively written, exquisitely paced, encouraging, practical and do-able. Anyone with the desire to look more deeply within will find this book a powerful too

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