WHY? Because writing is therapeutic. It can soothe our souls and ease our anguish. Because it allows us to take anger, hurts, disappoints, losses, mistakes, whatever, and place it on paper where it can’t hurt us or anyone else. Because it will help us draw out past pains and discover hope for the future.

True Testimonies (From course book with pen in hand: the healing power of writing by Henriette Anne Klauser, Ph.D.

Marco’s wife and children left him, leaving him desperate for clues and answers. He wrote out his confusion and his questions. “I was astonished,” he said. “I couldn’t believe it; everything in my life began to change.”

Bette’s son was killed in a random shooting. She said she would’ve gone mad without writing to ground her.

Dawn wrote letters to her son who had been abducted, even though she could never mail them. “Letter writing was a conversation I desperately needed even though my son could not hear my words.”

A professor at Kuwait University in war-torn Kuwait brought together a group of Muslim women who had no voice. They found release in expressing hidden emotions and inner turmoil through third-person stories.

No matter how broken your world seems to be, a message will break through: Writing heals