INSPIRATION
HEALTH
ARTICLE
TRANSFORM
THROUGH WRITING:
How Writing Heals
by MJ Schwader
Writing is healing. It’s also a lot of other things: frustrating, emboldening,
difficult, arduous, gratifying, and more. Most of all, it’s transformative,
because no matter what emotions the writing process brings up for you,
when you dive into it whole-heartedly to tell your story, you will come
back to the surface with pearls of insight and growth, new perspectives,
and ultimately, change.
F
or eighteen years I’ve been helping
authors become published. At first
it was a means to an end: write your
manuscript and get it published.
Within a year of starting writing
coaching I discovered shamanism,
and what started as a quest for personal healing from physical trauma after a car accident soon became an unraveling of my emotional
and spiritual pain as well. As I learned, I began to
use some of the techniques with my coaching clients, creating energy healing writing exercises that
helped them channel their messages onto the paper.
Soon, my authors began to see remarkable healing
through the process of writing, unearthing deep
truths and beliefs about themselves by writing for
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others. As they wrote and rewrote their own stories, they began to see different truths, opening
their hearts and their minds to what was possible.
Even when they came to me thinking they had already done the work of healing, the writing took
them deeper and revealed more at those depths.
Time after time my clients would complete our