--- title: Mari's Life Matters Blog | CreateWriteNow | Life Matters description: Life Matters | Discover how Journaling For The Health Of It® helps you with your Money, Health, and Self Matters in our monthly problem-solving columns. --- [Skip to content](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/tag/life-matters/page/1#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-grateful-for-gratitude-0) [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. Let’s focus on this last one: gratitude lists. For me, the practice of creating gratitude lists started during a stressful time. I wasn’t sleeping well, waking up in the middle of the night, insomnia for months. Upon sharing my issue, the resulting recommendation was to come up with a list of ten things I was grateful for, and even more specifically, the items had to come from the day that had just passed. So it began, but first just mentally, a list of ten items for which I was grateful, counting on my fingers in the middle of the night. But it didn’t end there, because I still woke up and stayed awake, the insomnia continuing. Not able to come up with another solution myself, the same person said, “Well, then make it thirty-six things.” Thirty-six things? That seemed impossible, especially during such a stressful time. But I tried it anyway. 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But did you know that it can also have a significant impact on your... [Read More Details Click to view blog post ](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/financial-freedom-matters-8-steps-to-financial-security) [![Spiritual Matters: The Spiritual Benefits of Journaling-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-spiritual-benefits-of-journaling) Life Matters AND Spiritual Matters Martin Thielen #### [Spiritual Matters: The Spiritual Benefits of Journaling Spiritual Matters: The Spiritual Benefits of Journaling](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/spiritual-matters-the-spiritual-benefits-of-journaling) This article originally ran October 28, 2022 on the Spirituality & Health site Feel relaxed and connected after spending time writing down your... 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