eBook - ePub
Opening Up by Writing It Down
How Expressive Writing Improves Health and Eases Emotional Pain
- 210 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Opening Up by Writing It Down
How Expressive Writing Improves Health and Eases Emotional Pain
About this book
Expressing painful emotions is hard--yet it can actually improve our mental and physical health. This lucid, compassionate book has introduced tens of thousands of readers to expressive writing, a simple yet powerful self-help technique grounded in scientific research. Leading experts James W. Pennebaker and Joshua M. Smyth describe how taking just a few minutes to write about deeply felt personal experiences or problems may help you:
*Heal old emotional wounds
*Feel a greater sense of well-being
*Decrease stress
*Improve relationships
*Boost your immune system
Vivid stories and examples yield compelling insights into secrets, self-disclosure, and the hidden price of silence. The third edition incorporates findings from hundreds of recent studies and includes practical exercises to help you try expressive writing for yourself. It features extensive new information on specific health benefits, as well as when the approach may not be helpful.
*Heal old emotional wounds
*Feel a greater sense of well-being
*Decrease stress
*Improve relationships
*Boost your immune system
Vivid stories and examples yield compelling insights into secrets, self-disclosure, and the hidden price of silence. The third edition incorporates findings from hundreds of recent studies and includes practical exercises to help you try expressive writing for yourself. It features extensive new information on specific health benefits, as well as when the approach may not be helpful.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Praise for Opening Up by Writing It Down
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Authors’ Note
- Introduction
- 1. “Shh . . . It’s a Secret”: Beginning to Explore the Connection between Confession and Health
- 2. The Invention of the Expressive Writing Approach
- 3. What’s on Your Mind?: Health Benefits of Verbal and Written Disclosure
- 4. Dealing with Chronic Health Problems Using Expressive Writing
- 5. Writing to Clear the Mind: Expressive Writing in Learning and Education
- 6. “Get These Thoughts Out of My Head!”: Getting Past Obsessions, Insomnia, and Bouts of Stupidity
- 7. To Speed Up or Slow Down?: How People Differ in Coping with Trauma
- 8. “I’m Here for You . . . or Am I?”: The Audience on the Other End of Our Words
- 9. How Does Writing Help Us Secure a Healthier and Happier Future?
- 10. Pulling It All Together: Recommendations for Your Use of Expressive Writing
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- About the Authors
- About Guilford Press
- Discover Related Guilford Books