In Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives, Louise DeSalvo explains that when we experience a trauma in our lives and explore it, examine it, and put it into words, “we stop seeing it as a random, unexplained event. We begin to understand the order behind appearances. Expressing it in language robs the event of its power to hurt us; it also assuages the pain. And by expressing ourselves in language, by examining these shocks, we paradoxically experience delight – pleasure, even – which comes from the discoveries we make as we write, from the order we create from seeming randomness or chaos. Ultimately, then, writing about difficulties enables us to discover the wholeness of things, the connectedness of human experience. We understand that our greatest shocks do not separate us from humankind. Instead, through expressing ourselves, we establish our connection with others and with the world.”

Research has proven that writing can be a catalyst along a healing journey, & I can attest.

My workshops & circles have that as their core.