--- title: Mari's Life Matters Blog | CreateWriteNow | Life Matters (2) 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. (2) --- [Skip to content](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/tag/life-matters/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? 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Our society and culture bombard us with rules about who we should strive to be, what constitutes a life of happiness. Who do you want to be? We all are universally unique. Feelings, preferences, and emotional expression are part of the human experience. They manifest in myriad ways with everyone. Developing a vibrant life of self-intimacy can transform your relationship with yourself and with others. ## What is self-intimacy?   [Read More](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/self-love-matters-self-intimacy-and-five-ways-to-nourish-it) Life Matters Blog | [Health Matters](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/tag/health-matters), [Life Matters](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/tag/life-matters) ## [Health Matters: 25 Reasons to Journal](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/health-matters-25-reasons-to-journal) [Stacy Fisher](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/author/stacy-fisher) Why do people journal? 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