Category Archives: Wellbeing

Therapeutic writing workshop

Posted on 16/05/2015 by Carol Ross

This post is based on a handout I created for a 2-hour workshop on getting started with writing for wellbeing. Research shows that writing can benefit your health and wellbeing, but so far no-one knows how it works. No special … Continue reading →

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Words for Wellbeing book

Posted on 21/06/2013 by Carol Ross

Three chapters of the Words for Wellbeing book are dotted around this blog. This post collects them all in one place. Link to contents pages, other front pages and Chapter 1: Word Power: Words for Wellbeing book extract Chapter 7: … Continue reading →

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Journals and diaries

Posted on 08/06/2013 by Carol Ross

If you do only one kind of writing to help your wellbeing do this … keep a journal or diary. A dated diary, a lined notebook or a book with blank pages; decorated or plain; large or small. The choices … Continue reading →

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Random input as inspiration for writing

Posted on 27/05/2013 by Carol Ross

Edward De Bono has written about using random input in creative thinking and problem solving. I find I can get writing inspiration from random words, pictures, things, etc. I’ve created a handout sheet with some ideas for using random input … Continue reading →

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Writing for wellbeing

Posted on 27/05/2013 by Carol Ross

How to Get Started with Writing for Wellbeing… You could write a story, or a poem, or write about your hopes for the future or about a place you’d like to visit. Write what you feel like writing, two lines … Continue reading →

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Writing in depression

Posted on 05/05/2013 by Carol Ross

Someone who just commented on a post has asked me to give my thoughts on how to approach writing alone, rather than in a group, while depressed. This post is my response to that comment. Before I give my thoughts … Continue reading →

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Life is ….

Posted on 04/05/2013 by Carol Ross

Life is … Life is an amazing gift to curious souls full of joy and happiness about experience, bad and good, that builds your personality Life is what you make it a chance to do right all the wrongs of … Continue reading →

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Reflective Writing

Posted on 04/05/2013 by Carol Ross

This sheet introduces the idea of Reflective Writing for wellbeing and personal development. Feel free to print multiple copies as long as you don’t alter the sheet in any way. Best wishes, Carol. Reflective Writing

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Writing Together: Therapeutic Writing in Mental Health – 5

Posted on 18/02/2013 by Carol Ross

Another extract from the ongoing serialization of Chapter 7 of the Words for Wellbeing book… Photographs of people, preferably doing something, e.g., sitting outside a café, sleeping, reading, making something. Writing about these can help the writer to look beyond … Continue reading →

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Reflections on my “Year of Writing” project in an NHS trust – 5

Posted on 12/02/2013 by Carol Ross

Click here to read the final extract from Chapter 14 of Words for Wellbeing: the appendix of the chapter giving the timeline of my Year of Writing project. Regards, Carol.

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