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The
Therapeutic Benefits of Letter Writing
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Chantal
Danino Holt, Coordinator, Marriage Center
Letter writing is one of the simplest yet
most powerful ways to create a healing experience for your
self and for the people you love the most.
Letter writing can help you release negative
feelings constructively. Once the negative feelings are out
of your mind and unto the paper, there is a sense of well
being. Through this process you can uncover new options and
solutions.
The process of letter writing helps you
to understand your feelings, thoughts and attitudes.
Besides the sense of well being after writing
a letter, there are also physical benefits to writing about
painful experiences or emotions. An unexpected benefit to
letter writing was reported by Claudia Kalb in Newsweek, April
26, 1999 (pages 75-76), in which she wrote, "Letter writing
can strengthen your immune response, reduce the symptoms of
depression and reduce the need to visit a doctor."
There are several types of therapeutic
letter writing, and we urge you to check our guidelines
to understand how to obtain the maximum benefit from this
type of communication.
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