Do you ever feel a sense of dread as Sunday evening approaches? You’re not alone. This phenomenon, known as the “Sunday Scaries,” affects many of us as we think about the week ahead and what is facing us. In this post, I thought I would mention how you can use a technique called ‘Expressive writing’…
Are you an introverted woman, in the midlife phase of your life, feeling a bit stuck, disconnected, unhappy or not sure of your next steps? If you would like to feel supported, within an online group setting, using therapeutic writing to explore and write through these thoughts and feelings, then do come to our group….
Understanding Stress and Its Impact What is Stress? Stress can be a tricky concept because it straddles both psychological and physical realms. At its core, stress can be viewed as the balance between the demands placed upon us and the resources we have to manage those demands. Stress is not always bad. There’s an optimal…
In our live expressive writing session last week, we looked at how to stop worrying, and we used a CBT technique called the Worry Tree to start training our brains to manage worry differently. The Worry Tree is a great strategy for worries, but there is another technique that you can use before this. It…
Another Sunday is here for us to do with what we choose. Do you feel that you have a choice over what you do today? I hope you do, or if you don’t, then I hope you feel good about what you have to do. In this article, I will discuss how to manage work…
In my weekly YouTube videos for The Weekly Process, I use the term ‘expressive writing’ instead of journaling or ‘therapeutic writing’ in some videos. As this term is used less commonly, I thought I would write this article to explain it. So, what is expressive writing? James Pennebaker coined the term in the 1980s. The…
