{"id":6637,"date":"2017-05-01T01:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T08:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=6637"},"modified":"2017-04-30T14:28:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T21:28:54","slug":"make-sense-of-your-world-through-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/make-sense-of-your-world-through-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Sense of Your World Through Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>\u201cPortable Corona number 3. That\u2019s my analyst.\u201d \u2014 Ernest Hemingway<\/span><\/h3>\n

Heal Through Writing<\/span><\/h3>\n

\u201cSeveral incidents contributed to social psychologist James W. Pennebaker\u2019s <\/a>interest in \u2018healing writing.\u2019 But when his parents\u2019 visit during college launched a bout of the asthma he thought he\u2019d left behind in the dry Texas of his childhood, he realize climate wasn\u2019t to blame; his emotions were. Once he recognized the connection, the asthma attacks stopped.\u201d \u2014\u201cWriting to heal,\u201d by Gail Radley, May 2017 The Writer<\/em> magazine.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pennebaker has conducted multiple studies indicating that writing can lead to healing. <\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Edward J. Murray investigated healing through writing and concluded \u201c\u2019It seems that putting\u00a0<\/span><\/span>our thoughts and feelings into language<\/em> helps confront them, organize them, and wrest the meaning from them. . .\u201d \u2014Gail Ridley, May 2017 The Writer<\/em> magazine.<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps we can make sense of our world by\u00a0using freewrites<\/a> as a vehicle.<\/span><\/p>\n

Note: If you are experience troubling thoughts that are disabling or disturbing, please seek professional help.<\/span><\/p>\n

Posts on The Write Spot Blog <\/a>about healing through writing<\/span><\/p>\n

How To Write Without Adding Trauma<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Does Your Heart Hurt? Prompt #269<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

Things Falling Apart is a Kind of Testing<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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