Write for Recovery: Exercises for Heart, Mind and Spirit

by Diane Sherry Case

I love to hear it when people are doing new and creative therapeutic writing approaches - which yours clearly is .
- James Pennebaker, Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, Univ of Texas at Austin,

Looking for inspiration? Would a more positive perspective on your life be beneficial? Would you like to rediscover empowering memories and clarify your dreams? And how about saying goodbye to writer's block and generating new material for your memoir or fiction? Write For Recovery is derived from the field of creative writing and uses the same type of exercises that are taught to inspire fiction writers, but redesigned in order to be geared toward healing.

160 pages, Paperback

Published January 16, 2018

Reviews

[Taffy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Opening line:
"I have used writing as a form of therapy most of my life, journaling almost daily since I was ten and then writing fiction for twenty-five years."

I haven't completely finished this book because I'm going slowly and enjoying the exercises, or, therapeutic writing. There's no end for personal recovering. There's a lot about staying in the moment, using tools that help lift the reader to a more positive level of self. Dreams, pictures, writing...all are used to bring more of an awareness to healing.
"What do you want?"

Thanks to netgalley for the early read! It's a book one could reread again and again when needing a lift.

[Erica Rosemary · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great starting point for creative writing as a form of therapy. Recommend for beginners to the subject - 'Write for Recovery' provides a decent summary of the psychological theory behind the practice without it being overwhelming.

Looking forward to trying the exercises given and seeing what comes of it, which I'm going to take my time with.

[Imperfectly Belle · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have really enjoyed reading this book! Though I have not completed all of the exercises, I plan to complete them over a longer period of time. I have found the exercises to be constructive, enlightening and surprising. It is certainly difficult to just let the words flow, but the way these exercises are set out makes this task much easier. As a sufferer of anxiety, depression and PTSD, I surprised myself with some of the things I wrote. I look forward to completing more of these exercises.

*Thank you to the author and publisher for providing an ARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.