Writing Therapy

Life Lessons From a Kidnapping Survivor and the Reflective Healing Power of Writing: Smile, It's Just Fear

George Molho | Posted 04.28.2012

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George Molho

My goal through my writing is to one day end the kidnapping of our children, their abuse and endangerment. I was one of them. I understand.

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Author, Former Child Abuse Victim: "I Wrote To Bury My Pain"

George Molho | Posted 03.04.2012

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George Molho

In 1978, at the age of 7, I was kidnapped and tortured for a year. I began writing a long letter to my soon-to-be ex-wife, and became besieged by submerged memories. I felt so much that I felt nothing. So, I put pen to paper and came alive.

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Writing As Therapy: How Three Women Transformed Loss Into Longhand

Nancy Doyle Palmer | Posted 11.17.2011

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Nancy Doyle Palmer

All three of these women have gone through significant and profound loss and all three are seriously the funniest people I know. Hard to pull off, but they do, in person and in their books.

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Trauma And The Benefits Of Writing About It

Psychology Today | Posted 11.17.2011

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Research by my colleague Jamie Pennebaker and his colleagues suggests that one of the best therapies for this kind of psychological trauma is also one...

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