--- title: Mari's Life Matters Blog | CreateWriteNow | Billie Wade description: 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/author/billie-wade/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), [Relationship Matters](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/tag/relationship-matters) ## [Relationship Matters: Personal Authenticity in Your Relationships](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/relationship-matters-personal-authenticity-in-your-relationships) [Billie Wade](https://www.createwritenow.com/life-matters-blog/author/billie-wade) Relationships form the bedrock of who you are and how you show up in the world. From birth throughout life, relationships with those around you influence you. How you perceive yourself relative to other people is paramount to your sense of well-being. Who is the you that you take into relationships? Multiple answers are valid for this question, as varied as each individual and each situation. The question becomes one seeking authenticity. Levels of intimacy depend on your relationships—parents, other family members, partner, children, boss, coworkers, friends, neighbors, and the list is never-ending. How you show up in your relationships depends on your responses to the people in your life. 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