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.

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.

How to Keep a Spiritual Journal

Author: Ron Klug
Publisher: Augsburg Books
ISBN: 9780806643571
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 148

Book Description
A comprehensive handbook for starting-and keeping-a spiritual journal.

The Courage to Heal Workbook

Author: Laura Davis
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060964375
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 484

Book Description
In this groundbreaking companion to The Courage to Heal, Laura Davis offers an inspiring, in-depth workbook that speaks to all women and men healing from the effects of child sexual abuse. The combination of checklists, writing and art Projects, open-ended questions and activities expertly guides the survivor through the healing process. Survival Skills -- Teaches survivors to create a safe, supportive environment, ask for help, deal with crisis periods, and choose therapy. Aspects Of Healing -- Focuses on the healing process: gaining a capacity for hope, breaking silence, letting go of shame, turning anger into action, planning a confrontation, preparing for family contact, and affirming personal progress. Guidelines For Healing Sexually -- Redefines the concept of "safe sex" and establishes healthy ground rules for sexual contact.

Managing Stress: Principles and Strategies for Health and Well-Being

Author: Brian Luke Seaward
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN: 1449675654
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 609

Book Description
Managing Stress, Seventh Edition, provides a comprehensive approach to stress management honoring the integration, balance, and harmony of mind, body, spirit, and emotions. The holistic approach taken by internationally acclaimed lecturer and author Brian Luke Seaward gently guides the reader to greater levels of mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being by emphasizing the importance of mind-body-spirit unity. Referred to as the “authority on stress management” by students and professionals, this book gives students the tools needed to identify and manage stress while teaching them how to strive for health and balance.

Adult Adoptees and Writing to Heal

Author: Liz DeBetta
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900468171X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 104

Book Description
We live in a world where conversations about trauma are becoming commonplace and adopted people are using their voices to educate the general public about the effects of maternal separation and genealogical bewilderment. But for many adult adoptees the act of speaking truth to power is still fraught. Personal writing can unlock long held silences and help adult adoptees feel empowered to rewrite their narratives. The need to deconstruct dominant narratives about adoption and its inherent loss and trauma is necessary if we are to reform an institution that has damaged many generations of mothers and children. Because many adoptees do not have access to adoption and trauma competent therapists, writing is an accessible therapeutic modality that can be used to reframe narratives that position adoptees as the object rather than the subject. Adult Adoptees and Writing to Heal shares the framework and method of using writing as a practice for adult adoptees, therapists, teachers, and researchers interested in learning how to migrate and heal embodied trauma. It analyzes lived experience and the author’s own writing to develop a methodology for moving toward wholeness by writing and speaking the truth of internal adoptee experiences.

Turning Memories Into Memoirs

Author: Denis Ledoux
Publisher: Soleil Press
ISBN: 9780974277349
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
Turning Memories Into Memoirs contains countless helpful suggestions for remembering--researching--organizing--collecting and writing memories and family or personal stories. It includes* how-to writing exercises* clear explanation of literary techniques* proven motivational supports and* examples from the workshops. Turning Memories is a useful reference and guide for both beginners and experienced writers who want to write personal and family stories.

Journey to Health

Author: Lori Batcheller
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059519222X
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
Would you like to use a creative process to improve your physical, emotional and spiritual health? This book will guide you through specific journal-writing exercises designed to remove the blocks that limit physical, emotional and spiritual health and lead you on a journey to improved health and well-being. In Journey to Health: Writing Your Way to Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Well-being you will learn: How to start and keep a journal for physical, emotional and spiritual health How medical research is revealing writing's powerful healing effects on the immune system, physical ailments and emotional well-being How to work with your body and mind to relieve stress and painful symptoms How to release anger, sadness, anxiety and other powerful emotions How to connect with your Inner Healer How to capture joyful moments How to track your journey to improved health This book teaches 14 different journal-writing techniques to promote health and well-being and offers dozens of specific writing exercises for your journey.

Managing Stress

Author: Brian Seaward
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN: 0763798339
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 609

Don't Call Me Mother: Breaking the Chain of Mother-daughter Abandonment

Author: Linda Joy Myers
Publisher: Variocity
ISBN: 1933037563
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
A Prize-winning MemoirDont Call Me Mother: Breaking the Chain of Mother-Daughter Abandonment I wanted to tell the secret stories that my great-grandmother Blanche whispered to me on summer nights in a featherbed in Iowa. I was eight and she was eighty Dont Call Me Mother is an inspiring chronicle of perseverance, healing, and the unquenchable power of forgiveness. Acclaimed author and therapist Linda Joy Myerss compelling, compassionate, and often heart-wrenching memoir shares the story of her mothers abandonment of her, part of a generations-long tradition in her family. Myers uncovers the layers of a painful secret she carried with her for years, transporting us on a journey that is both familiar and uncompromising in its honesty a journey into the inner heart of a home shattered by abandonment and undiagnosed manic-depressionand a quest for the fulfillment of a childhood dream for a peaceful and loving family.