: How to use therapeutic writing for empowerment without revisiting trauma #IndiaNEWS Writing about trauma can affect us profoundly.A 1986 study found that students asked to write about traumatic memories

How to use therapeutic writing for empowerment without revisiting trauma #IndiaNEWS
Writing about trauma can affect us profoundly.A 1986 study found that students asked to write about traumatic memories reduced the number of times they visited a health centre for illness, injury, a check-up, psychiatric or other reasons in six months following the study – but that writing about trauma consistently caused emotional and physical upset immediately afterwards.Such unpleasant after-effects are now widely accepted as part of the healing process enacted through written emotional disclosure.Amid a global pandemic, our moral distress persists, despite the success of virtual health-care systems. Writing can be a companion to a chaotic mind in ways that do not involve revisiting trauma.Here are three evidence-based therapeutic applications of writing and three accompanying prompts.Use writing to groundTherapists advise a method known as grounding for people suffering from distressing thoughts. Grounding entails taking note of physical surroundings to calm the triggered body by rooting it in the present. The “5-4-3-2-1??? technique asks you to note five things you can see, four you can hear, three you can feel, two you can smell and one you can taste.The technique parallels a writing prompt for “re-embodiment??? in the present, from poet and psychotherapist Ronna Bloom. Following the advice of Bloom and trauma therapists, use simple, focused writing to take poetic hold of the present by writing about an object from...Read more

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