journaling as a healing art virginia maripolsky rnc, bsn, msw bangkok hospital medical center
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Journaling as a Healing ArtVirginia MaripolskyRNC, BSN, MSW
Bangkok Hospital Medical Center
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Presentation Objectives:
● Using writing as a tool for healing● Present four basic writing
exercises● Advise on the legal status of your
journal especially as it pertains to a health care professional
● List warming up techniques useful with clients
● Refer to internet resources
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Journal, noun. 1. A daily record, as of occurrences, experiences, or observations. 2. A newspaper, especially a daily one. 3. A periodical or magazine. 4. A log or logbook.
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Writing as a Healing Art
Poets and Writers Magazine, May 2001“Literary Life Writing”“The Rape Poems”“How Telling our Stories Transforms our Lives”“Poetry in Prisons”“Recovering Your Silenced Life”
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Long before there were therapists there were poets.
● “Once crystallized into words, all-engulfing feelings become manageable, and once challenged into explicitness, the burden of the incommunicable becomes less heavy. The very act of creating is a self-sustaining experience, and in the poetic moment the self becomes both the ministering ‘therapist’ and the comforted ‘patient’.”
● Molly Harrower, PhD, The Therapy of Poetry
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Summary of study outcomes
● Many students wept while writing● Some indicated these were tragedies
they had never disclosed● Many were troubled and dismayed by
their writing● Four months later…they reported their
spirits had improved significantly
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Physiological effects of writing
● Brain wave activity congruence between the right and left brain
● Increased T-lymphocyte activity● Increased ability to fight infection● Lower heart rates● More relaxed physiological state
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Journal of the American Medical Association - Joshua Smyth
● Symptoms of people with asthma and rheumatoid arthritis
● Greater reduction in their symptoms four months later
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Silencing our stories● If telling our stories seems to
unleash our bodies’ healing potential
● Then silence can adversely affect our health
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Disclaimer
Don’t use writing as a substitute for therapy or for getting medical care.
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Rules of Journal Writing● 1. Date your entries as you go● 2. Don’t make any other rules
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1. Timed Exercises
● Choose a set time to write● 5 – 7 minutes serves well● Set a timer or watch the clock● Stop writing when the time is up,
even in the middle of a sentence
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2. Flow Writing
• Pick a tangible object from your surroundings and use it as the opening image in your entry
• Let your mind free associate from one thought to the next
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3. Dialogue Writing● Open with a leading question• Take a breath, pause; write down the first response that comes
• Work in a rhythm of question/answer
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4. Unsent letters● Although this is an addressed journal
entry, you do not need to take the recipient’s feelings into account
● Allow the letter to ramble and develop in your usual style
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Unsent letter● Often the ritual of
actually writing on stationery and sealing into an addressed envelope provides closure
● Has been used to write to a loved one who has died
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The Legal Status of your Journal ● Don’t tell
your journal anything you wouldn’t want the District Attorney to hear.
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Legal issues
● It isn’t protected● You can’t claim your 5th
amendment rights● The diary is just another
piece of evidence
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Legal issues● Emails have
been used as evidence
● Encrypt personal use of computers or use only a phrase you will know
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Warming up● Date & time your
work● Sign your work● Ignore your inner
critic● Watch out for the
censor● Avoid judgments
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Techniques to get started:
A tool for healing● Draw a picture
of a totally healthy you.– Describe it in
your own words.
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Warming up techniques● How do you take time to
experience the pleasure of each of your 5 senses.
● Write about each.● Explore your instinct for making
things up
● Write a travel diary
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Warming up techniques● Write about a childhood
recollection. ● Go with the first thought● Go for the details
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Warming up techniques● Start doodling: continue for 2
- 3 minutes● Describe it or how you felt
doing it
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Warming up techniques● A blessing a day● Review the day and write one
thing that you are willing to accept as a gift
● End with the words…..thank you– Amen– Namaste
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Warming up techniques● Journaling as a garbage can:• Throw away your
frustrations, your fears, your doubts, your insecurities, your anger.
• Writing about them will lessen their power over you.
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Warming up techniques
● Journal as a camera• Carry a notebook with you• Collect careful little ‘word
photos’• You will begin to see more than
you ever saw before
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Warming up techniques
● Write a prayer
● Write a song
● Write a country and Western song
● Write in fragments
● Write a poem
● Write a haiku
● Write to yourself as a child
● Make a wish list
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Keep a Dream Journal
● Write every dream you remember
● Write it when you wake up in the middle of the night
● Write when you are tired to catch your brain off guard
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Internet Resources● Often, a webring of journals that post at least 20
entries a month. ● The Squirrel Lists, a variety of lists of journals of
Gen-Xers, left-handers, Canadians, humor-oriented, philosophy-oriented... a place to find a list of people offering specifically what you're looking for.
● Diaries and Journals on the Internet● Willa's List of Journals ● Open Pages, a webring of journals that is open to any
journal that meet a few simple qualifications.
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JOURNALING● Acts as a healer● Lessens the power that our emotions have
over us● Research has shown that journaling
increases our bodies ability to fight infection and
● Promotes a more relaxed physiological state