What Is Therapeutic Writing and How It Benefits You?
An insight on therapeutic writing and its major benefits
Any form of art can be therapeutic. An activity that gives you pleasure and takes your mind away from your problems always has a positive impact on your mental health.
Writing is a form of art; it’s a powerful therapeutic resource: it makes you confront your problems. But it also gives you the skills to solve them.
What is therapeutic writing?
The concept is simple: write whatever goes in your mind, with no filters or judgments. Don’t think if it’s wrong or right, if it’s nice or rude, or if you should be ashamed of it.
Don’t use your mind, write from your heart.
Therapeutic writing must be unfiltered; free-writing. There are no rules: just sit down and write.
Therapeutic writing differs from journaling. The latter is used to record events and the emotions attached to it. It can have similar purposes of therapeutic writing, but it’s not only that.
Writing with therapeutic purposes is to be focused on trauma: you write about what hurts you.
