Everyone has a part of life that has brought them unwanted experiences. And these unwanted experiences are the stories that usually provoke a person to pick up the pen and write about what happened to them. Why do so many people write about their pain, publish them in memoirs, and fly around the country telling their stories? Because writing and sharing challenging, traumatic, and difficult stories helps heal, not just the writer, but the reader as well.

Teenagers, parents, veterans, mothers, daughters, neighbors, employees - there is not a description of a person that doesn't fit into a category of having a story that needs healing. We all have them. We go into therapy to talk them out, we make appointments with our physicians to see if the symptoms from stress might not be cured with a pill, we meditate, exercise, take yoga all to help heal from difficult experiences. It doesn't matter who you are or what you have to heal from, writing can be a powerful way to uncover, recover, and discover a reborn self.

For a brochure on my 6 week course Write to Heal PTSD and Other Symptoms of Stress email me at: [email protected]. Meanwhile get out your pen and write out what happened. Tell your story in every detail. Leave nothing out. Take your time. Spill it all onto the page. Go deep then deeper and visualize yourself healed - then write about that.

until next time,
Jan