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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!

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Health Matters: Body Positivity Journaling

Stacy Fisher

There’s no doubt about it: journaling is good for your health.

Journaling is a deeply therapeutic and healing exercise, especially during life’s more challenging moments. Mari L. McCarthy’s book, Mindset Medicine, shines a bright light on what it’s like to love yourself unconditionally. She describes journaling as a process of uncovering the “issues in your tissues,” warts and all.

Much like the self-love movement, body positivity has gained momentum in recent years. This movement challenges the way we’ve traditionally viewed health, rejecting the use of weight as the gold standard for measuring well-being.

The article explores how body positivity journaling can improve your relationship with your body, and in turn improve your health

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Money Matters: Are You Making Progress Toward Your Financial Goals?

Michelle Cornish

We are officially over two-thirds of the way through 2021, and the fall is a great time to check-in on your financial goals. Even if you didn’t set any goals at the beginning of the year, taking a...

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Money Matters: Personal Finance Books You Need to Read

Robert McMillen

A lack of financial literacy is a major cause of most financial and money problems. Personal finance is primarily concerned with achieving personal financial objectives, such as setting aside...

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Self-Awareness: Why does unlearning lead you to happiness?

Kara McDuffee

From when we’re born, we’re encouraged to learn things. In the early years, we embrace learning like a sponge; we absorb everything, and anything as our brains begin to construct life. As we get...

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Self Matters: The Transformative Power of Gratitude

Billie Wade

Feeling overworked? Unappreciated? As if your dreams seem to drift farther and farther away? Current culture commands the need for more. Bigger. Faster. Newer. More comfortable. Easier. There is...

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Men Matters: Journaling as Stress Relief for Men Who Care

Lynda Monk

This article originally appeared on GoodMenProject.com

We often don’t talk about men as caregivers. The focus is often on women as caregivers, and indeed, women are caregivers, often at higher rates...

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Health Matters: How to Design a Cozy Journaling Space

Stacy Fisher

Journaling can take place anywhere, but designating a special space could make your journaling ritual more enjoyable and effective.

Hygge (pronounced “hue-guh”), is a Danish word that means cozy,...

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Money Matters: Do you feel financially secure?

Michelle Cornish

How To Create Financial Security Today

I’ve been thinking about security a lot lately, although maybe not in the way you might think. After a crazy heat wave earlier this summer, the area where I...

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