Using Writing to Process Your Emotions

Although talk therapy can have a limited impact on healing trauma, there's a strong body of research dating back to the mid-1980s which supports writing as a useful tool for confronting and process emotion.

(PDF) Confronting a Traumatic Event. Toward an Understanding of Inhibition and Disease)

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