Writing as a Way of Healing

Author: Louise Desalvo
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 9780807072431
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
In this inspiring book, based on her twenty years of research, highly acclaimed author and teacher Louise DeSalvo reveals the healing power of writing. DeSalvo shows how anyone can use writing as a way to heal the emotional and physical wounds that are an inevitable part of life. Contrary to what most self-help books claim, just writing won't help you; in fact, there's abundant evidence that the wrong kind of writing can be damaging. DeSalvo's program is based on the best available and most recent scientific studies about the efficacy of using writing as a restorative tool. With insight and wit, she illuminates how writers, from Virginia Woolf to Henry Miller to Audre Lorde to Isabel Allende, have been transformed by the writing process. Writing as a Way of Healing includes valuable advice and practical techniques to guide and inspire both experienced and beginning writers.

Expressive Writing

Author: Kathleen Adams
Publisher: R&L Education
ISBN: 1475803168
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 197

Book Description
Expressive writing is life-based writing that focuses on authentic expression of lived experience, with resultant insight, growth and skill-building. For decades, it has been the province of journals, memoirs, poets, and language arts classrooms. Social science research now provides indisputable evidence that expressive writing is also healing. In this remarkable collection, eight leading experts from education, counseling, and community service join to offer compelling guidance from applied practice. You’ll discover: How writing poetry helps primary school children develop emotional intelligence A model for helping teens at risk write safely about their deepest hurts How to engage reluctant writers and help them develop vital writing skills A simple and effective way to build structure, pacing, and containment into life-based writing How discovering the wellspring of inner speech helps strengthen writing skills A method to transform expressive writing into insightful problem-solving Easy strategies to write family stories Innovative ways to bring literature into the classroom to hone critical thinking skills through reflective practice Practical, time-tested ways for expressive writing in guidance and counseling Case studies for all levels of learners: Primary, teens, college-age, and adults Whether you are an educator, a counselor, a facilitator or a writer, you’ll find this volume an invaluable and innovative resource for the foundations of practice of expressive writing.

Writing and Healing

Author: Charles M. Anderson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 500

Book Description
Provides a unique occasion for teachers, scholars, and other professional to begin an open, serious conversation about the healing power of writing.

Writing to Heal

Author: James W. Pennebaker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781608821259
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This book takes readers through a series of guided writing exercises that help them explore their feelings about difficult experiences. Each chapter begins with an introduction that explains how to proceed with journal exercises and what they are structured to help accomplish. The exercises leave readers with a strong sense of their value in the world.

Vertigo

Author: Louise A. DeSalvo
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN: 9781558613959
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
Born to immigrant parents during World War II and coming of age during the 1950s, DeSalvo finds herself rebelling against a script written by parental and societal expectations. In her revealing family memoir, DeSalvo sifts through painful memories to give voice to all that remained unspoken and unresolved in her life: a mother's psychotic depression, a father's rage and violent rigidity, a sister's early depression and eventual suicide, and emerging memories of childhood incest. At times humorous and often brutally candid, DeSalvo also delves through the more recent conflicts posed by marriage, motherhood, and the crisis that started her on the path of her life's work: becoming a writer in order to excavate the meaning of her life and community. In Vertigo, Louise DeSalvo paints a striking picture of the easy freedom of the husband and fatherless world of working-class Hoboken, New Jersey, the neighborhood of her early childhood, where mothers and children had an unaccustomed say in the running of their lives while men were off defending their country, but were jolted back into submission when World War II ended. Hoboken was not a place where girls were encouraged to develop their minds, or their independent spirits, yet it is that tenement-dotted city with its pulse and energy, wonderful Italian pastry, and sidewalk roller-skating contests, and not suburban Ridgefield, where the family moves when Louise is seven, that claims Louise's heart. Written with an honesty that is as rare as it is unsettling, Vertigo also speaks to broader truths about the impact of ethnicity, class, and gender in American life. Offering inspiration and a healthy dose of subversion, this personal story of a writer's life is also a study of the alchemy between lived experience and creativity, and the life-transforming possibilities of this process.

The Story You Need to Tell

Author: Sandra Marinella
Publisher: New World Library
ISBN: 1608684849
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 330

Book Description
A practical and inspiring guide to transformational personal storytelling, The Story You Need to Tell is the product of Sandra Marinella’s pioneering work with veterans and cancer patients, her years of teaching writing, and her research into its profound healing properties. Riveting true stories illustrate Marinella’s methods for understanding, telling, and editing personal stories in ways that foster resilience and renewal. She also shares her own experience of using journaling and expressive writing to navigate challenges including breast cancer and postpartum depression. Each of the techniques, prompts, and exercises she presents helps us “to unravel the knot inside and to make sense of loss.”

Writing the Divine

Author: Sara Wiseman
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN: 0738715816
Category : Channeling (Spiritualism)
Languages : en
Pages : 156

Book Description
Sara Wiseman shares clear, step-by-step instructions for channeling and channeled writing, including what to expect when first starting out. You will learn to use a journal for spiritual growth and to manifest your goals through writing. Once you get in the flow of Divine energies, you can receive answers to life's questions and challenges, meet your spirit guides, and tune in to universal truths.

Expressive Writing

Author: James W. Pennebaker
Publisher: Idyll Arbor
ISBN: 9781611580464
Category : Diaries
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
That's the advice James Pennebaker and John Evans offer in Expressive Writing: Words That Heal. This book will help you overcome the traumas and emotional upheavals that are keeping you awake. You'll resolve issues, improve your health, and build resilience. Based on nearly 30 years of scientific research, the book shows you how and when expressive writing can improve your health. Its clear explanations of the writing process will enable you to express your most serious issues and deal with them through writing. Book jacket.

The Write Spot

Author: Marlene Cullen
Publisher: M. Cullen Enterprises
ISBN: 9781941066447
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description
The Write Spot: A Path to Healing, the sixth book in The Write Spot series, is

Write for Life

Author: Sheppard B. Kominars
Publisher:
ISBN: 1596240776
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 275

Book Description
Bringing the facts discovered by research on the healing benefits of writing into the daily perspective of self-discovery, this self-paced book offers a life-long adventure into living healthier and having more fun doing it.