Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives
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| Rating | : | 4.13 (633 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807072435 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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DeSalvo's program is based on the best available and most recent scientific studies about the efficacy of using writing as a restorative tool. DeSalvo shows how anyone can use writing as a way to heal the emotional and physical wounds that are an inevitable part of life. Writing as a Way of Healing includes valuable advice and practical techniques to guide and inspire both experienced and beginning writers.. With insight and wit, she illuminates how writers, from Virginia Woolf to Henry Miller to Audre Lorde to Isabel Allende, have been transformed by the writing process. In this inspiring book, based on her twenty years of research, highly acclaimed author and teacher Louise DeSalvo reveals the healing power of writing. Contrary to what most self-help books claim, just writing won't help you; in fact, there's abundant evidence that the wrong kind of writing can be damaging
P.L., Binghamton, NYCopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal A professor of creative writing at Hunter College and a frequent guest on National Public Radio, DeSalvo (Vertigo: A Memoir, LJ 7/96) brings 20 years of writing experience to this work. Writing links feelings of pain, grief, and loss to an event and speeds healing. . DeSalvo presents seven stages of writing, from preparation/germination to completion/going public. She recommends writing in spare moments, uncensored, and asks her students to write five pages per week. Wise, Broome Cty. When the writing is completed, sharing stories in a group with other empathetic writers will sharpen the narrative. She advises writing every detail as a reporter to move beyond a trauma. Camerons work is recommended for public libraries, while DeSalvos is better for higher-level writing classes.Lisa S. DeSalvos wo
"At The Top Of My List of Favorites" according to Story Circle Book Reviews. I have read a great many books on writing, and written a few myself. But Writing as a Way of Healing has gone straight to the top of my list of favorites, and I suspect that it will stay there for a very long time--perhaps for all time. But in the process of reading this book, I discovered I had to read the book that went before it, and now I want to tell you about both.Louise DeSalvo has been teaching English and creative writing for nearly twenty years. The first in her working-class Italian family to graduate from college, she escaped a soul-deadening home life--a depressed mother, an angry f. New thoughts on a classic topic Joan Mazza Louise DeSalvo takes a topic many of us think we know everything about and tells us something new. Reminding us that "telling our stories transforms our lives," she gives us specific examples of people who did just that. By allowing ourselves to tell the whole truth of our experiences and their emotional impact, we arrive at a new view of our life and its meaning. I especially liked her dos and don'ts on page 26-27. I also appreciated her counsel about ways to take care of oneself while dredging up old hurts and painful experiences, seeing our strengths along the way. Every page shows her sensit. Way above and beyond the call Despite being a writer, it's so hard expressing the extent to which this book has touched my soul. I came to it desperately in need of guidance, already knowing DeSalvo's reputation as a Woolf critic I've greatly admired. I knew her book would be useful. I had no idea it would be life-changing. This is one of the most influential books on my life I've ever read, and it may even be the most influential on me. I've never found any book on this topic to truly cut to the heart of what it is to need to find healing, much less a book with as much practical advice as this one. DeSalvo doesn't spew plat