--- title: Mari's Life Matters Blog | CreateWriteNow | Self Matters (4) description: Self Matters | Discover how Journaling For The Health Of It® helps you with your Money, Health, and Self Matters in our monthly problem-solving columns. (4) --- [Skip to content](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/tag/self-matters/page/4#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 | [Self Matters](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/tag/self-matters), [Life Matters](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/tag/life-matters) ## [Self-Awareness: How You Can Use Uncertainty as a Life-Changing Tool](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/self-awareness-how-you-can-use-uncertainty-as-a-life-changing-tool) [Kara McDuffee](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/author/kara-mcduffee) Self-awareness is our ability to identify our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It’s all about understanding who we are and how we fit in the world. As such, it’s one of the most important elements in living a happy, healthy, purposeful life. Yet, most of us lack self-awareness. That’s because our human biology makes it incredibly tricky to be self-aware.  Fortunately, we can develop our self-awareness with practice. When armed with the right tools - knowledge, questions, and (of course) our journals - we can build our insight and reclaim the life we want. 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