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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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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 car, or the elusive perfect…whatever. The underlying message is that you are not enough the way you are and with what you have. The ads are not about true self-improvement, but the way you can fix your problem of inadequacy by buying their product or service. So, you look around at the world and beat yourself up because you cannot attain the ideal, no matter how much you try. Well, there is a way to evolve into the person you want to be--$0.00; convenient; tailored to you; you control the outcome. What could do such a thing? Other than journaling, that is. The transforming power of self-love. Underneath the umbrella of self-love are the elements of self-compassion, self-acceptance, and self-care.

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Self-Love Matters: 3 Reasons Naming Your ‘Why’ Brings You Inner Calm And Energy

Kara McDuffee

Do you ever feel stuck in a procrastination fog, unable to get yourself to do the thing you’ve been telling yourself that you want to do? Or, when you do get around to doing it, disappointed that it...

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Self-Love Matters: How Journaling Can Help You Grieve

Billie Wade

Grief, despite its presence in all human life, is a taboo subject. Grief has a bad reputation. In recent years, you have been subjected to an extended period of high stress brought on by events that...

Life Matters Blog | Self Matters, Life Matters

Self Matters: Synchronicities and Serendipities—How to Find Them

Billie Wade

My life is filled with synchronicities and serendipities, and so is yours. I am in constant awe about the unplanned, unrequested joys I experience. Some people call it “chance” or “luck” or...

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Self Matters: The End of the New Year's Resolution

Billie Wade

Every year, millions of people promise to live healthier, happier, more prosperous than in the past. Repeatedly, New Year’s resolutions begin with a fervent declaration accompanied by a flurry of...

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Self-Awareness: ABC's of Changing your Inner Dialogue

Kara McDuffee

How can your ABCs skyrocket your self-confidence and success?

Have you ever beat yourself up over something you said? Or perhaps got extra critical of yourself because something turned out...

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Self Matters: Tips for Reducing Holiday Stress

Billie Wade

The five-week mega-holiday begins with Christmas in July sales. However, the winter holiday season officially kicks into high gear with Thanksgiving Day in November. This time of year evokes as much...

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Self-Awareness: When Is The Scarcity Mindset Pulling You From Happiness?

Kara McDuffee

Have you ever felt like you’re not enough of something? Or perhaps, that you don’t have enough of something?

I’ll answer for you: you have. I know because it’s not merely a universal feeling we all...

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Self Matters: Chase Away Stress with the Joy of Acceptance

Billie Wade

Acceptance is the challenge of the day. While life always has an element of uncertainty, the unknown now seems amplified both in terms of quantity and duration in everyday life. We have adjusted,...

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Billie Wade

Self-Love Matters: The Journey of Self-Love

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Kara McDuffee

Self-Love Matters: 3 Reasons Naming Your ‘Why’ Brings You Inner Calm And Energy

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Billie Wade

Self-Love Matters: How Journaling Can Help You Grieve

Grief, despite its presence in all human life, is a taboo subject. Grief has a bad reputation. In recent years, you have been subjected to an...

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Self Matters: Synchronicities and Serendipities—How to Find Them-featured

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Billie Wade

Self Matters: Synchronicities and Serendipities—How to Find Them

My life is filled with synchronicities and serendipities, and so is yours. I am in constant awe about the unplanned, unrequested joys I experience....

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Billie Wade

Self Matters: The End of the New Year's Resolution

Every year, millions of people promise to live healthier, happier, more prosperous than in the past. Repeatedly, New Year’s resolutions begin with a...

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Kara McDuffee

Self-Awareness: ABC's of Changing your Inner Dialogue

How can your ABCs skyrocket your self-confidence and success? Have you ever beat yourself up over something you said? Or perhaps got extra critical...

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Billie Wade

Self Matters: Tips for Reducing Holiday Stress

The five-week mega-holiday begins with Christmas in July sales. However, the winter holiday season officially kicks into high gear with Thanksgiving...

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