I want to add in the different comments placed about writing. https://ptsd-acceptingcopingthriving.com/2015/07/10/freewriting/  Sometimes people don’t read the comments and I felt they add to this post by giving more resources and other perspectives.

Patricia J Grace wrote her Grace to Survive post at https://patriciajgrace.wordpress.com/2015/07/11/writing/

I went in search of Pennebaker’s Expressive Writing.  I found what I believe is from the original person plus I’m adding a few other links that I thought were interesting.

http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/faculty/pennebaker/Home2000/WritingandHealth.html

James W Pennebaker’s home page http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/faculty/pennebaker/Home2000/JWPhome.htm

Expressive Writing: Words that Heal by James Pennebaker http://www.amazon.com/Expressive-Writing-Words-that-Heal/dp/1611580463

I haven’t read this book.  I plan to put it on my ‘to be read list.’

by James Pennebaker

by James Pennebaker

 What’s on your mind and in your heart?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/write-yourself-well/201208/expressive-writing