Psychology Today

Memoir as Medicine: Writing to Heal

Writing our stories can be healing, especially if we've encountered trauma. Writing your own emotional truth is important.
Education Week

Inside a School Where Creative Writing Helps Teens Cope With Trauma

Nationally, about 3 in 4 students have experienced one or more adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), which can include abuse, ...
Psychology Today

Writing Your Narrative From Trauma to Addiction: 4 Prompts

As an advocate of writing for healing, I often find that there are students in my workshops who are trying to come to terms with past traumas. A large number of those dealing with such traumas have ...
Medical Xpress

'Lit therapy' in the classroom: Writing about trauma can be valuable, if done right

Some of my students have been assaulted. Others have been homeless, jobless or broke, some suffer from depression, anxiety or grief. Some fight addiction, cancer or for custody. Many are in pain and ...
PopSugar

If You're Having Trouble Processing Trauma, Try This Journaling Technique From a Therapist

Trauma differs for everyone — it's caused by varying events or experiences one has gone through — and there are instances where it may progress into post-traumatic stress disorder. Licensed mental ...
The Atlantic

Trauma Is Everywhere. Write About It Anyway.

Every day—through TikTok, Instagram, and Zoom—the internet forces us to think about how we present ourselves to the world, giving us endless opportunities to construct our identities anew. Little ...
Salon

Why I won’t stop writing about “trauma” to focus on joy

“I want to use your work, D,” a good friend who teaches high school English — I’ll call her Vee — told me at a mixer, in front of a couple of artists we hang out with. “But it is triggering. It’s so ...
Times Union

Diane Cameron transforms personal, family trauma into literature

Columnist Diane Cameron has authored three books. Her most recent publication dealt with her stepfather's traumatic military history. Even as a young child, Diane Cameron knew that newspapers and the ...
New Republic

The Trauma of Writing About Trauma

Hours after submitting to my editor my draft of a long, reported magazine feature about my alma mater’s campus rape problem, I woke up screaming from a horrifying dream about being drugged and raped.
WBUR

Frontline Workers Process A Year Of Trauma Through Writing

Over the last year, Maryland psychotherapist Kerry Malawista noticed frontline health care workers struggling with what she called "the ghosts of the COVID deaths they carry." Borrowing the expression ...
The Conversation

Inside the story: writing trauma in Cynthia Banham’s A Certain Light

Why do we tell stories, and how are they crafted? In a new series, we unpick the work of the writer on both page and screen. Former Fairfax journalist and lawyer Cynthia Banham voices the silenced ...