Finding the right words to describe how one feels can be the first step toward recovery…as one University of Houston study found. Journaling can be cathartic in helping to make sense of traumatic ...

I have found that for some patients, speaking about their emotions is quite difficult, but writing about them is easier, and so I have introduced a form of writing into their treatment, expressive ...

Whether you put pen to paper or type on a computer, writing about stressful experiences or emotionally charged issues in your life can be good for your health and emotional well-being. In fact, ...

Previous research suggests that writing about stressful experiences results in better health and psychological well-being. In the present study, a multi-ethnic sample of 79 HIV-positive women and men ...

Ordinary and universal, the act of writing changes the brain. From dashing off a heated text message to composing an op-ed, ...

May 8, 2017 - For people going through a divorce, a technique called narrative expressive writing--not just writing about their emotions, but creating a meaningful narrative of their experience--may ...

Chronic worriers, take note: Simply writing about your feelings may help you perform an upcoming stressful task more efficiently, finds a Michigan State University study that measured participants' ...

Telehealth Personalized Cancer Risk Communication to Motivate Colonoscopy in Relatives of Patients With Colorectal Cancer: The Family CARE Randomized Controlled Trial Patients (N = 277) with stage I ...

Mary Potter Kenyon's book, 'Expressive Writing for Healing: Journal Your Way From Grief to Hope” is a helpful resource when it comes to handling grief. She writes less like an author and more like a ...

The unfolding Coronavirus epidemic is generating tremendous individual and societal anxiety, as reported in almost every newspaper in the world. Why wouldn't it? Paradoxically, this survival reaction ...