"Those who do not have the power over the story that dominates their lives - the power to retell it, reexperience it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change - truly are powerless because they cannot think new thoughts." Salman Rushdie
(This post on "Written exposure therapy" is downloadable both as a PDF file and as a Word doc)
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. James Hollingworth
Denise Sloan, associate director at the US National Center for PTSD, has produced many fine publications on therapeutic writing. However I think she has surpassed herself with her most recent:
In the last post in this sequence "Angus & Greenberg's book ...
I was due to go through to Glasgow today for the fifth workshop in this seven seminar emotion-focused therapy (EFT) series. Sadly my back has been playing up ... as it occasionally does ... and it really doesn't make good sense to travel. The soreness is getting better nicely, but it can do with a bit more TLC as I gradually mobilise more.
