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.

"Heal YOur Self with Writing is an elixir for the soul " says Psychology Today. Our lives may be determined less by past events than by the way we remember them. How do we learn to listen more to the stories that heal? How do we put together the pieces of our past? How can we rewrite our life story so that pain becomes meaningful and actually promotes growth and transformation? Heal Your Self with Writing offers a step-by-step journey of discovery and re-visioning through focused journaling, a practice that can enable healing and empowerment. In this way, each reader is able to make meaning out of memory and put the past where it belongs - behind them. book can return to the Self through the focused journaling exercises shared within its pages. Based on a workshop developed at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA, the award-winning playwright (Calamity Jane), screenwriter (Touched by an Angel) and author of The Way of Story) and global teacher offers a step-by-step journey of discovery and re-visioning designed to facilitate healing and deeper self-inquiry.

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 - Change your life through journaling, reflecting and creative life storiesAuthor: Dale DarleyWriting in a journal is powerful, cathartic and life-changing. This book has been described by one reader as different from any other journaling book that she has bought, because of it's positive perspective.Another reader told me "Just wanted to let you know that I started reading your book this morning and was instantly hooked. I found a book to write in and have written seven pages on the most traumatic experience in my life, cried buckets but loved getting it down on paper and feel so much better with it being out and there are so many pages to add over the next four days. This bit comes from my soul - your book is, I feel going to save my life, not from death but disillusionment - a life of disillusionment - can you imagine! I've been facing that for a while, and today you gave me the path out of that, the path I've been looking in the long grass for! For the first time in 2 years, I sit here now with a jewel of excitement in my belly - so long since I felt that."Another said 'I feel as if you really get me and I can finally write and let it all out.' I wrote this book as a result of being in one dark place too many. I had written and journaled for years, using my writing to get my feelings out. As I sat and reflected I found ways to overcome my perceived problems. When I was out walking stories started to come into my head. It was then I realised that creative life writing, where you take your journal entries and turn them into stories was not only fun but incredibly healing. Do you feel stuck? Do you want clarity? Do you want to write and journal in a positive way? Do you want to have fun with your journaling? Then Writing to Heal is for you... Writing to Heal takes you on a journey that asks you first to pick up your pen and write. To then reflect on what you have written and rewrite it with positive intention so that you change the story. This book guides you from starting to journal, through reflective practice and on into creative life writing. Writing stories is a fantastic way for anyone who is interested in making changes to their lives, to be in control of what happens next and to let the healing begin. When you start to use stories to change the way you think, your perspective changes. My dream is that this book inspires you to write and to consider writing your life story or memoir. It's easy to read, pick up and flick through, one of those bedside books to dip into when you are pondering what to write.

Use the power of your own voice to heal from the past with this guided self-help journal from the author of Writing Ourselves Whole. Healing from trauma can be a slow and painful process, especially for sexual trauma survivors, who are often shamed into keeping their experience to themselves. But journaling can provide a cathartic release of emotions, allowing us to process the past and reflect on how we’re feeling in the present. Author and writing teacher Jen Cross has worked with sexual trauma survivors for more than fifteen years. This companion journal to her book Writing Ourselves Whole is a space to put the pain on a page. In doing so, we release the hold it has on us and restore our bodies and minds. In this self-help journal, you will find:A sixty-day guided journey to healing from your experienceSixteen writing exercises that gently prompt writers deeper into their experiences and into renewalFollow-up readings, additional exercises, and suggested uses for your writing