Writing Heals
It does not seem obvious, but writing or journaling about one’s negative experiences can have a positive outcome on our mental health.
A theory regarding how this works states that writing or narrating our sob story frees up our mental and cognitive resources. When we put down our emotions on paper, or tell it to someone, our brain may be reencoding the negative experience, reorganizing it in a way that is less traumatic to us.
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