Positive Focus Sunday - Journaling Power - A Blog Tour

I have journaled on and off for years. Ok, make that decades. We won't go into my brief entry in high school on how BG kissed me behind the church fellowship hall while in high school.

Journaling for me has covered many angles - from a place to record what is going on in my life, dealing with emotional situations, like divorce, and just the pure joy of writing, pen to paper. In storage at the moment is a trunk full of various notebooks where I have journaled over the years. 

So when WOW-Women on Writing offered me this opportunity to read and review Mari L. McCarthy's book, Journaling Power - How to Create the Happy, Healthy Life You Want to Live, I jumped at the opportunity. 

A bit about the book and the tour...

Can the simple act of putting pen to paper every day lead to healing? 

In the multi-award-winning Journaling Power: How To Create The Happy, Healthy Life You Want To Live, Author,  Musical Artist and CreateWriteNow.com Founder Mari L. McCarthy shares her story of how she used her own journaling power to relieve her symptoms of multiple sclerosis, become a 5-octave singer and created 20+ Inner Journey Workbooks.

This best-selling self-help memoir teaches you how to use your own journaling power to heal the emotional, mental, physical and spiritual issues in your tissues and embody and empower your True Self. You get step-by-step guidance on how to:

• Reduce physical pain and overcome illness

• Heal emotional wounds from past traumas

• Resolve inner conflicts and create self-compassion

• Eliminate limiting beliefs and fears

• Reconnect with your inner healer

• Reduce stress and find your inner wisdom

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

Whether you need to heal from stressful life events or learn how to put yourself first, Mari L. McCarthy guides you on a journey of well-being and self-care. With Journaling Power, you unlock the powers of this self-healing tool to lead a life of joy, compassion, creativity, and growth. So, grab a notebook, a pen, and a quiet space, and reveal the strength of your unconscious mind. 

This book is perfect for curious health-conscious people who want to heal the emotional, spiritual, mental issues in their tissues and grow and transform their life.

About the Author

 

Mari L. McCarthy, Founder and Inner Work Tour Guide of CreateWriteNow.com, shows curious health-conscious people how to use Journaling For The Health Of It®️ to heal the emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual issues in their tissues and to know and grow their True Self. 

She’s the multi award-winning author of Journaling Power: How To Create The Happy, Healthy Life You Want To Live and Heal Your Self With Journaling Power. She’s also created 20+ Journaling For The Health Of It® Inner Journey Workbooks that include Who Am I?, Declutter Your Life In 28 Days, and Take Control Of Your Health In 24 Days.

Find her online at:

 

Website: http://createwritenow.com/

Facebook: http://facebook.com/CreateWriteNow

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwtlBKKHXAfl_fZjLtOGMHA

Now that all the 'business' is taken care of - my opinion.

She starts the book with talking about her journey to journaling and what she was going through at the time she started. She also discusses a bit about the science behind how journaling is effective and the studies done on the positive aspects of journaling.

Personally, I know when going through a bad time, I feel a great sense of relief and release when I journal.

But when she referenced Julia Cameron and Morning Pages, I was hooked! I had just started up on writing morning pages again, mainly because I just bought Cameron's latest book, The Listening Path. 

This past month has been a bit crazy for me. The old saying, 'when it rains, it pours' has hit the nail on the head. In this case, I started an intensive online course on self-publishing, in additional to working through some spiritual, witchy class things. AND decided this was the right time to start house hunting!

So my journaling has been about my old mindset of financial failure, how I'm not worthy of getting a house of my own, just being tired of trying to juggle work and all the other things I want to do. Throw in a cold, rainy month and journaling has really helped pull me through February into March and springtime without going completely off the rails!

The book is short, only 135 pages, but it is packed with a lot of information and journaling exercises after every chapter. You could sit down and read the whole book in one sitting if you wish. But I would suggest you get a notebook and pen and take it one chapter at a time and think about the journaling exercises and answering the questions. 

This is a book I am glad I have on my shelf.

Now for the really exciting part!

If you are interested in your own copy, I have one to give away! Please leave a comment below and I'll select one winner on April 4.