From trauma to self-understanding, intuitive writing offers a structured way to process emotion, reduce distress, and restore ...

Journaling, or expressive writing, is one of the most commonly recommended coping strategies for just about every issue you can imagine. Dealing with stress? Grief? Going through a bad break up?

As a writer and trauma researcher, I’m fascinated by the connection between writing (an act), healing (a process), and health (a state). In clinical practice and in workshops and courses I’ve led, ...

Writing therapy, whether as a solo practice or done in partnership with a licensed mental health clinician, has long been a powerful tool “for unpacking and making sense of our thoughts and feelings,” ...

The professional journal for the college scholar-teacher. CE publishes articles about literature, rhetoric-composition, critical theory, creative writing theory and pedagogy, linguistics, literacy, ...

Stuart Johnson was skeptical about the writing therapy his psychologist recommended to treat his post-traumatic stress disorder. Writing, the Persian Gulf War veteran said, was not his forte. But the ...