Therapeutic Writing – What Is it And How Can It Serve You?
If you want to change your life. Start writing.
One of the most effective, powerful and often life changing parts of therapy is the ability to observe, manage and learn from our thoughts and feelings and using what we discover to understand ourselves better. Writing allows you to process your thoughts and see them in black and white.
You don’t have to look far, to find evidence of how writing has changed people’s lives.
Researcher, James Pennebaker, and many others who followed have done studies which have proven how writing can have a positive effect on your mental health and well-being.
The point of writing is not about good grammar and punctuation. It’s not about how you do it. It’s about the process. The healing and changes that happen through the process of writing.
Someone once said, “process is more important than the outcome” and when it comes to therapeutic writing, that’s exactly what it’s about. It’s not about having a perfect piece of writing, it’s about the magic which happens through the writing.
Therapeutic writing and journaling are holistic, low-cost therapeutic tools which offers clients immediate feedback, advances the therapeutic process more quickly, and is useful long after therapy ends. In fact, a journal can become your very own therapist or a friend you won’t ever want to be without.
Some different ways a person can start journaling.
Journal writing can be like switching a light on for you. It’s the equivalent of meditation and it creates a mind-body-spirit connection that can make a huge difference in your life.
Therapeutic writing can change your life. It certainly changed mine.
If you want to change your life. Start writing.
One of the most effective, powerful and often life changing parts of therapy is the ability to observe, manage and learn from our thoughts and feelings and using what we discover to understand ourselves better. Writing allows you to process your thoughts and see them in black and white.
You don’t have to look far, to find evidence of how writing has changed people’s lives.
Researcher, James Pennebaker, and many others who followed have done studies which have proven how writing can have a positive effect on your mental health and well-being.
The point of writing is not about good grammar and punctuation. It’s not about how you do it. It’s about the process. The healing and changes that happen through the process of writing.
Someone once said, “process is more important than the outcome” and when it comes to therapeutic writing, that’s exactly what it’s about. It’s not about having a perfect piece of writing, it’s about the magic which happens through the writing.
Therapeutic writing and journaling are holistic, low-cost therapeutic tools which offers clients immediate feedback, advances the therapeutic process more quickly, and is useful long after therapy ends. In fact, a journal can become your very own therapist or a friend you won’t ever want to be without.
Some different ways a person can start journaling.
- Write about your day to day experiences and how you live them.
- Write about things you read and how they impact you.
- Use questions that have no immediate answers but leads you to your own exploration.
- Write what comes to mind with sentence starters like, “I remember…..”
- Use quotes that are meaningful to you.
Journal writing can be like switching a light on for you. It’s the equivalent of meditation and it creates a mind-body-spirit connection that can make a huge difference in your life.
Therapeutic writing can change your life. It certainly changed mine.