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Why Write?
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Health and Healing
The two books I've written about recovering from life-threatening crises never touched on the single activity that went hand in hand with healing body, mind, and spirit. This book, Write For Life: the Survivor's Way, is about this activity—journaling. Journaling can be used to cope with crises such as health, family problems, divorce, professional set-backs, and aging and, at the same time, it can help you get more joy out of living.
For fifty years, I've been writing journals and, for the past five, I've given workshops at cancer centers, senior centers, and conferences around the country for others to discover how important writing can be in improving the quality of life. This book will help you get started journaling. I begin with my own story, then offer reasons why others have begun this process that is filled with surprises and excitement. Without ever leaving the comfort of an armchair or stepping off the front porch, you will begin a new adventure with your life and how you live it.
But I am understating what will happen by getting started on this journey of discovery. You will find this out for yourself as you go. If you are uncertain or reluctant to begin this adventure, you may become more comfortable as you read about why others are writing journals. For me, it was a health crisis in 1955 that launched my journal writing.
From the very start, it was clear to me that helping others to write about their feelings of suffering and pain was difficult. Few, if any of us, have been taught to be self-caring—accepting of ourselves. Finding the way to do this is at the heart of the Write For Life process. Because writing is an action of a very personal nature—it engages the use of imagination, intuition, and the unconscious, while it acknowledges the self that needs to be the recipient of healing—finding the support of a group can be invaluable.
Write For Life: Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit Through Journal Writing is the guidebook and this companion site offers community, support, and uncritical feedback.
Order Your Copy of Write For Life Today From Amazon.com or GoodSheppardBooks.com.
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