Expressive Writing

Expressive Writing
Author: James W. Pennebaker
Publisher: Idyll Arbor
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Diaries
ISBN: 9781611580464

That's the advice James Pennebaker and John Evans offer in Expressive Writing: Words That Heal. This book will help you overcome the traumas and emotional upheavals that are keeping you awake. You'll resolve issues, improve your health, and build resilience. Based on nearly 30 years of scientific research, the book shows you how and when expressive writing can improve your health. Its clear explanations of the writing process will enable you to express your most serious issues and deal with them through writing. Book jacket.

Healing with the Arts

Healing with the Arts
Author: Michael Samuels
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1451696833

Heal yourself and your community with this proven 12-week program that uses the arts to awaken your innate healing abilities. From musicians in hospitals to quilts on the National Mall—art is already healing people all over the world. It is helping veterans recover, improving the quality of life for cancer patients, and bringing communities together to improve their neighborhoods. Now it’s your turn. Through art projects, including visual arts, dance, writing, and music, along with spiritual practices and guided imagery, Healing with the Arts gives you the tools to address what you need to heal in your life—physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. An acclaimed twelve-week program lauded by hospitals and caretakers from around the world, Healing with the Arts gives you the ability to heal your family and your friends, as well as communities where you’ve always wanted to make a difference. Internationally known leaders in the arts in medicine movement, Michael Samuels, MD, and Mary Rockwood Lane, RN, PhD, show you how to use creativity and self-expression to pave the artist’s path to healing.

Writing as a Healing Art

Writing as a Healing Art
Author: Laura Cerwinske
Publisher: Perigee Trade
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Creative writing
ISBN: 9780399525421

Transform inner power by learning taking dramatic step beyond traditional journal-writing, using a simple stream-of-consciousness to strengthen creativity and spirituality.

Writing to Heal

Writing to Heal
Author: James W. Pennebaker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781608821259

This book takes readers through a series of guided writing exercises that help them explore their feelings about difficult experiences. Each chapter begins with an introduction that explains how to proceed with journal exercises and what they are structured to help accomplish. The exercises leave readers with a strong sense of their value in the world.

Tell Me Again: Poetry and Prose from The Healing Art of Writing, 2012

Tell Me Again: Poetry and Prose from The Healing Art of Writing, 2012
Author: Joan Baranow
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2013-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0988986531

For more than a decade The Healing Art of Writing conference has sought to strengthen compassionate understanding between healthcare providers and those who seek a state of well-being beyond the reach of surgery or pharmacology. Together, the participants share the belief that being cured of disease is not the same thing as being healed, and that a practice of expressive writing promotes both spiritual and physical healing. The writings presented at the 2013 conference, collected here in Tell Me Again, are a powerful testament to that belief. Within these pages you will hear, again and again, words of truth, words that uplift, words that heal.

Write to Restore

Write to Restore
Author: Jen Cross
Publisher: Mango Media Inc.
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2020-03-03
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1642501077

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

A Healing Art: Regeneration Through Autobiography

A Healing Art: Regeneration Through Autobiography
Author: Marilyn Chandler McEntyre
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2017-09-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317377346

Originally published in 1990. Many post-World War I autobiographies focus on episodes of crisis. In a century torn by global strife and breakdown of cultural institutions, autobiography provides a way of recovering from crisis and restructuring reality–a healing act that involves the writer in a "wrestle with words and meanings" that can be deeply regenerative. Narration can be a way of purging guilt and pain, re-centering the self, and reconnecting with community after a shattering experience has driven one into silence and isolation. This book considers the problems, such as finding words for the inexplicable, the narrative perspective chosen and the traditional forms or narrative structures as means of re-patterning consciousness. It looks at seven autobiographies as crisis narratives and demonstrates how therapy and art merge in autobiography so that the literature acts back upon life. Works considered: Vera Brittain’s Testament of Youth; Elie Wiesel’s Night; Christa Wolf’s Kinheitsmuster (A Model Childhood); C. S. Lewis’ A Grief Observed; Peter Handke’s Wunschloses Unglueck (A Sorrow Beyond Dreams); Adrienne Rich’s Of Woman Born; Robert Prisig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Healing with Art and Soul

Healing with Art and Soul
Author: Kathy Luethje
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2008-12-18
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1443803081

This fascinating collection of essays contains a variety of perspectives about the use of expressive arts for facilitating physical and emotional healing. Each author within brings a fresh approach and unique experiences to their writing. Within these pages, you will find many ideas for the use of the arts and can learn how to engage the inner layers of the self that allow natural healing processes of the body and soul to flourish. When we fully engage an art modality, we find ourselves in a place in our consciousness that could be called 'healingspace,' where we feel ourselves whole and re-member ourselves as well. From psychic trauma to physical illness, dis-ease of many kinds may be addressed through the various techniques discussed here. The tools offered by some authors are population specific and age appropriate, while several authors have given us the philosophical underpinnings for it all. While the authors within represent the grassroots voices of this new and rapidly expanding field, several of them have developed their own methods for using the arts, and have thriving practices. Our approach is wholistic. Music, visual arts, movement, dance, and poetry are discussed as separate modalities and in combination with one another in a process or flow. The reader will engage in our experiences with these modalities as they have been lived. The complementary CD that accompanies this book will allows the listener to have a full sound experience of toning. If a rationale is needed for establishing arts programs in medical centers or other health facilities, it can be found here. The book offers tools for self development and for group facilitation. Those wanting to expand their healing practice through the use of the arts will find the book to be a faithful guide. Anyone wishing for a fuller understanding of how the arts may work to facilitate healing will find much food for thought within these pages.