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 ...
Aug. 23, 2005 (Washington) -- The benefits of emotionally expressive writing assignments depend on the context of the assignment, according to researcher Louise Sundararajan, PhD, EdD, who presented ...
Background: Previous research has shown that expressive writing is beneficial in terms of both physical and emotional health outcomes. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness and ...
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' ...
Expressive writing is not a benign act of recounting the day’s events but a transformative tool for meaning-making. It gifts the opportunity to rewrite our lives’ narratives, repositioning ourselves ...
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 ...
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 ...
Individuals who wrote about their relationship troubles during the pandemic from the point of view of a neutral observer had less conflict and aggression with their partner, according to new research ...