Wednsday Trauma check in with 🔥 01/20/21

Hiya peeps welcome to the Wednesday check in with 🔥 thanks for stopping by.

This was supposed to be a second piece to trauma and exercise, however that's not gonna happen today, as I accidentally deleted the wrong doc,smh 🤷‍♀️. So...

Today's check in is on dealing with trauma through expressive writing.

But first the icebreaker of the day.

What’s the last thing that made you laugh?

Expressive writing is a form of writing therapy developed primarily by James W. Pennebaker in the late 1980s. The seminal expressive writing study instructed participants in the experimental group to write about a 'past trauma', expressing their very deepest thoughts and feelings surrounding it.

Expressive writing is a way to literally take control of your own story. Life story writers record an account of their tough life events and tell emotional truths from their experiences. Healing from emotional trauma starts with telling your story. Doing so is an emotional experience, but as you continue to explore and express your story in different ways, you’ll find that your story no longer sparks the same emotional and behavioral reactions.

By writing, you put some structure and organization to anxious feelings.

Writing is no stranger to therapy. For years, practitioners have used logs, questionnaires, journals and other writing forms to help people heal from stresses and traumas.

an intensive research review published in 1998 in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology (Vol. 66, No. 1), suggests that writing does make a difference.

In order to tap writing's healing power, people must use it to better understand and learn from their emotions It helps you to get past them.After all, writing's power to heal lies not in pen and paper, but in the mind of the writer,

The act of thinking about an experience, as well as expressing emotions, important. In this way, writing helps people to organize thoughts and give meaning to a traumatic experience. Or the process of writing may enable them to learn to better regulate their emotions

.Even if you don’t consider yourself a writer, the process of writing can help you to cope with and process past events, diffuse emotionally-charged memories, gain insight into your history, and transform and redefine your future. Telling your own stories will allow you to let them go and free yourself.

Kinds of Expressive Writing

Diaries and journals.

Autobiographies or memoirs.

Personal writings and observations.

Personal values and beliefs.

Personal songs and poems.

Opinion or thought pieces.

Question 1: Do you write? If yes, what do you like to write?

Question 2: if you do write thoughts and emotions,What do you think of writing your thoughts and emotions down, do you find it helpful?

As always these questions are optional, feel free to say hi or drop off a hug or 2.

Hang tough stay pawsome ur friend and forum supporter 🔥

A couple quotes:

“Pain is the pen that writes the song that calls us forth to dance.”

–Michael Card

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.” – William Wordsworth

A couple links:

https://www.changecompanies.net/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/write-yourself-well/201208/expressive-writing

https://mslicecontent.com/

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