--- title: Mari's Life Matters Blog | CreateWriteNow | Marie Higgins (2) description: Discover how Journaling For The Health Of It® helps you with your Money, Health, and Self Matters in our monthly problem-solving columns. (2) --- [Skip to content](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/author/marie-higgins/page/2#main-content) Close ** Click to close 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! Have a problem getting back into or staying with your Journaling Power Practice? CreateWriteNow provides 300+ unique, soul-searching journaling power prompts here that will inspire your Muse and jumpstart your word flow. Life Matters Blog | [Life Matters](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/tag/life-matters), [Spiritual Matters](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/tag/spiritual-matters) ## [Spiritual Matters: The Most Important Question](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/spiritual-matters-the-most-important-question) [Marie Higgins](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/author/marie-higgins) So far, in this Spiritual Matters Column, I have written about a variety of ways to journal to help us grow spiritually; that is, to grow into the most loving person, to ourselves, and everyone and everything else. These journaling ways have included growing gratitude, asking for help from God*, and considering the help already at hand. For me, all of these practices move naturally in and out of my daily journaling. In other words, I don’t necessarily do all of these things every time I journal. But there is one spiritual practice that I do EVERY SINGLE TIME before I close my journal. Let me lead you to it. Generally, I start with the current date and then I write down what is on my mind and heart. It is basically a way to spew the script that is running in my head. I write whatever comes to mind. It often consists of things I did the day before or what I expect to happen today, how I am feeling and why, what I dreamt about the night before or the song that was on my heart when I woke up. Sometimes I interpret or try to explain why I had the dream or held that song upon awakening. Let’s start here. [Read More](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/spiritual-matters-the-most-important-question) Life Matters Blog | [Life Matters](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/tag/life-matters), [Spiritual Matters](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/tag/spiritual-matters) ## [Spiritual Matters: Grateful for Gratitude](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/spiritual-matters-grateful-for-gratitude) [Marie Higgins](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/author/marie-higgins) If you use your journal like I do, you use it for everything, scribbling down various thoughts, desires, heartaches, happenings, and everything in between, including action items and gratitude lists.... [Read More](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/spiritual-matters-grateful-for-gratitude) Life Matters Blog | [Life Matters](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/tag/life-matters), [Spiritual Matters](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/tag/spiritual-matters) ## [Spiritual Matters: Get on the helicopter](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/spiritual-matters-get-on-the-helicopter) [Marie Higgins](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/author/marie-higgins) As a small business owner in the personal health services industry in the northeast United States, cancelations occur often in the early months of the year due to winter weather and acute medical... [Read More](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/spiritual-matters-get-on-the-helicopter) Life Matters Blog | [Life Matters](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/tag/life-matters), [Spiritual Matters](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/tag/spiritual-matters) ## [Spiritual Matters: I Ask SOMETHING To Help Me](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/spiritual-matters-i-ask-something-to-help-me) [Marie Higgins](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/author/marie-higgins) *This is the first monthly Spiritual Matters column by Marie Higgins which will provide insight into adding a spiritual component to your life with journaling.* ### WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE SPIRITUAL? We... [Read More](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/spiritual-matters-i-ask-something-to-help-me) # Life Challenges Blog ## Posts by Marie Higgins: [![Spiritual Matters: The Most Important Question-featured](https://www.createwritenow.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Spiritual%20Matters.jpg?length=400&name=Spiritual%20Matters.jpg) ](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/spiritual-matters-the-most-important-question) Life Matters AND Spiritual Matters Marie Higgins #### [Spiritual Matters: The Most Important Question Spiritual Matters: The Most Important Question](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/spiritual-matters-the-most-important-question) So far, in this Spiritual Matters Column, I have written about a variety of ways to journal to help us grow spiritually; that is, to grow into the... [Read More Details Click to view blog post ](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/spiritual-matters-the-most-important-question) [![Spiritual Matters: Grateful for Gratitude-featured](https://www.createwritenow.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Spiritual%20Matters.jpg?length=400&name=Spiritual%20Matters.jpg) ](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/spiritual-matters-grateful-for-gratitude) Life Matters AND Spiritual Matters Marie Higgins #### [Spiritual Matters: Grateful for Gratitude Spiritual Matters: Grateful for Gratitude](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/spiritual-matters-grateful-for-gratitude) If you use your journal like I do, you use it for everything, scribbling down various thoughts, desires, heartaches, happenings, and everything in... [Read More Details Click to view blog post ](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/spiritual-matters-grateful-for-gratitude) [![Spiritual Matters: Get on the helicopter-featured](https://www.createwritenow.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Spiritual%20Matters.jpg?length=400&name=Spiritual%20Matters.jpg) ](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/spiritual-matters-get-on-the-helicopter) Life Matters AND Spiritual Matters Marie Higgins #### [Spiritual Matters: Get on the helicopter Spiritual Matters: Get on the helicopter](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/spiritual-matters-get-on-the-helicopter) As a small business owner in the personal health services industry in the northeast United States, cancelations occur often in the early months of... 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