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Healing Through Writing

Healing Through Writing. WS-A: Self Care Presenter: Sharon A. Bray, Ed.D. September 21-22, 2019. “But Who Are You?”. “I –I hardly know sir, just at present—at least I know who I was when I got up this morning.” -- Alice In Wonderland. Why Write?.

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Healing Through Writing

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  1. Healing Through Writing WS-A: Self Care Presenter: Sharon A. Bray, Ed.D. September 21-22, 2019

  2. “But Who Are You?” “I –I hardly know sir, just at present—at least I know who I was when I got up this morning.” -- Alice In Wonderland

  3. Why Write? • I write to the questions that shatter my sleep. I write to the answers that make me complacent. I write to remember. I write to forget. I write to the music that opens my heart. I write to quell the pain. -- Terry Tempest Williams, “Why I Write” • Writing helped me heal. Writing has changed my life. Writing has saved my life.—Louise DeSalvo, Writing as a Way of Healing

  4. When Life Hurts, Writing Can Help That’s the way writing often starts, a disaster or a catastrophe…by writing I rescue myself under all sorts of conditions…it relieves the feeling of distress. --William Carlos Williams, MD and poet

  5. What Does Writing Do For Us? • Helps reduce stress; lower blood pressure & heart rate • Helps reclaim your voice & honour your uniqueness • Encourages reflection and greater insight • Builds community through shared story • Translates emotions into words • Connects feelings with upsetting events • Makes thoughts/feelings more accessible • Reduces “emotional inhibition”—factors that create disease • Strengthens antibody responses

  6. When is Writing Most Healing?

  7. When You Go Down the Rabbit Hole…

  8. Different Types of Journaling • Gratitude Journaling • Blogging • Stream-of-consciousness writing • Art journaling • A Line-A-Day journaling

  9. Writing Alone: Keeping a Journal • Journal for yourself. There’s no wrong way to journal. • Find a quiet place to write where you won’t be interrupted. • Set the timer for 15 minutes. Try to write regularly. • Write in whatever way is most natural for you • Write Freely. Don’t worry about grammar, spelling or punctuation. • Keep your journal private.

  10. Last Words… I forgot that our lives are made up of equal parts sorrow and joy, and that it is impossible to have one without the other. This is what makes us human...I wrote to remind myself that in the darkest hour the roses still bloom, the stars still come out at night. And to remind myself that, despite everything that was happening to me, there were still choices I could make. (Novelist and cancer survivor, Alice Hoffman, In: Survival Lessons, 2015)

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