Posts tagged with 'writing'
Manchester BABCP conference: disagreeing with Jamie Pennebaker - writing can help past, present & future concerns (eighth post)
23rd August 2010
I've already written a couple of appreciative posts about Jamie Pennebaker's fascinating talk at the BABCP Manchester conference - one on "Expressive writing & emotional suppression" and another on "Expressive writing & timing issues". I'm now going to write a couple of posts disagreeing with points Jamie appeared to make …
Manchester BABCP conference: Jamie Pennebaker, expressive writing & timing issues (seventh post)
22nd August 2010
I wrote yesterday about Jamie Pennebaker's talk at the Manchester BABCP conference and explored various issues including the importance of emotion regulation and the unhelpfulness of high levels of emotional suppression. In today's post I would like to enlarge on the the important issue of timing and how the values …
Manchester BABCP conference: Jamie Pennebaker, expressive writing & emotional suppression (sixth post)
21st August 2010
I've already written a series of five blog posts about the British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) conference in Manchester last month. One of the plenary presentations I went to was given by Jamie Pennebaker who spoke about "Expressive writing in clinical practice". The entry on page 28 …
Recent research: six studies on management, health messages, behavioural activation, ACT, expressive writing, and wellbeing
18th February 2010
Here are mixed bag of psychotherapy-relevant studies. Foy & colleagues' meta-analysis highlights the value to patients/clients of having good communication between their primary care physician and their mental health professional. The second paper I mention - free full text - by Mollen et al is a bit of a wake-up …
Writing (& speaking) for resilience & wellbeing 3: personal growth
24th January 2010
They taught me more about, in the midst of all this trauma and suffering and uncertainty - of remaining true to who you are, and what love can be about in those moments. And there are three or four of those that really stand out very strongly, whose lives were …
Writing (& speaking) for resilience & wellbeing 2: traumas & difficulties
17th January 2010
Fear is the mind-killer ... I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. …
Writing (& speaking) for resilience & wellbeing 1: introduction
10th January 2010
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Eden Phillpotts You can access a downloadable Word format version of this post by clicking here . Introduction: This is the first in a series of blog posts that aim to provide a brief, "state …
Berlin weekend: self-affirmation theory
13th December 2009
All day Friday and all day Saturday exploring Berlin. Then on Saturday evening we went to a reasonable restaurant and this morning - Sunday - I woke with what seems to be a pretty good dose of food poisoning. Humph. Well it's been a peaceful day for me with my …
Autogenic training: fifth session
7th September 2009
Here are the handouts and other materials for the fifth Autogenic training session. Start this exercise once you have worked through the first four lessons. Take your time. If you have conscientiously worked your way through to this fifth session, you're doing really well. Congratulations. Don't feel you have to …
Goal renewal boosts wellbeing: third post
30th August 2009
In a series of linked blog posts over the course of this month, I've discussed writing for health and wellbeing, assessment of one's own level of wellbeing, and using a broadened Best Possible Selves exercise. In today's post I take these ideas a step further by linking them to the …