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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!

Life Matters Blog | Self Matters, Life Matters, Self-Love Matters

Self-Love Matters: Practice Self-Love With These 3 Journaling Ideas

David Timm

Your journal is the ultimate storytelling device. Whether you are charting your frustrations, anxieties, goals, aspirations, or affirmations of self-love, it’s important to express yourself instead of bottling things up.

Showing yourself some love is easier said than done. It’s part of human nature to critique and analyze your shortcomings and failures. But too much of this can seriously impact your self-esteem.

By following these three steps and templates for practicing self-admiration, you can effectively take yourself on your own date through journaling practices and find success in yourself.

Life Matters Blog | Life Matters, Men Matters

Men Matters: What People Don't Notice About You: A Man's Perspective on Self-Image

Mason Lanier

It's easy to forget that self-image is a lot more than just how you look. It's the way we see ourselves in our own minds, and it affects every aspect of our lives. It affects what kind of clothes we...

Life Matters Blog | Self Matters, Life Matters, Self-Love Matters

Self-Love Matters: Are You a Codependent?

Billie Wade

Do you find yourself in a perpetual state of rescuing others, saving them from one disaster after another? Or the other people in your life belittle you rather than offer support when you need...

Life Matters Blog | Health Matters, Life Matters

Health Matters: Halting the Hustle Through Journaling

Stacy Fisher

From side hustles to double-booked calendars, busyness has become the norm for many. While being passionate and committed to a goal can certainly provide a sense of meaning and purpose, it can also...

Life Matters Blog | Self Matters, Life Matters, Self-Love Matters

Self-Love Matters: 6 Surprising Tips to Start (and Actually Stick) with A Journaling Habit

Kara McDuffee

My apartment used to be littered with empty notebooks with a first page that read, “I’m excited to start journaling again!” And then, after a few scribbled pages, nothing. I couldn’t seem to stick...

Life Matters Blog | Life Matters, Spiritual Matters

Spiritual Matters: Grateful for Gratitude

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....

Life Matters Blog | Money Matters, Life Matters, Prosperity Matters, Financial Freedom Matters

Financial Freedom Matters: Are You Afraid to Make More Money?

Michelle Cornish

Did you know there’s a name for fear of wealth? According to Psych Times, it’s plutophobia. This fear of wealth can prevent you from reaching your financial goals without you even realizing it. Like...

Life Matters Blog | Life Matters, Men Matters

Men Matters: The Benefits of Journaling and Why It Matters

Mason Lanier

There's a certain stigma around the idea of men writing in journals. Society tells us that it's a woman's thing and that men should be tough and never show their emotions. I'm here to tell you why...

Life Matters Blog | Self Matters, Life Matters, Self-Love Matters

Self-Love Matters: The Journey of Self-Love

Billie Wade

An old adage says that you cannot love others if you do not love yourself. At the same time, you are bombarded with messages that measure everyone against some ideal whether it is weight loss, a new...