Suzanne Strong

Hello everyone,

I was delighted to hear from Cheryl, a lady who attended my workshop two weeks ago, that she had been using writing therapy regularly since then. It has been helping her to work out her feelings and release emotions about her relationship with her son.

At my workshop, she had written down a letter to her son, and during this process she had started to see things from his perspective, which led to greater empathy. I told her that is one of the key things they found in studies, is that people receive greater healing if they can empathise with the person who has wronged them. I told her I have an exercise that is writing from the point of view of the other person.

So, she did this, and she received huge breakthroughs in the workshop.

Cheryl told me yesterday, when she went home she had continued to write down her feelings and release emotions. She and her son were estranged and he had taken a restraining order out on her recently. This past week he had been writing many disrespectful texts, and she didn’t respond as she didn’t want to do it the wrong way. She said she did respond once when she was very triggered.

Cheryl said she went away and did a lot more writing and felt that it released her emotions. She could see that she had been wanting to correct his behaviour, but she now could see it from his point of view. She stopped seeing his behaviour as disrespectful, but more of how he was feeling hurt. It completely changed her perspective.

After this, she wrote a long email saying sorry to him and explaining how she understood where he was coming from and she was sorry. Approaching it from a completely different angle. When her son read this email, he said it was beautiful and accepted her apology, they reconciled, and are now talking again. What an amazing outcome! I am so excited for Cheryl.

This is the power of writing therapy. It can bring people back together. It can heal relationships, if we use it in an honest and reflective manner.

I am not saying you will always reconcile with relationships (and some you shouldn’t) but it is possible by writing things down to approach conflict from a completely different angle, with more empathy, compassion and understanding. Therefore, this does change our relationships as we can then respond better and most of the time this brings a better outcome. If it doesn’t bring a reconciliation, what it does bring is inner peace for you.

I have seen it in my life how I am able to understand and forgive people who have done me wrong through writing therapy. It doesn’t mean I take them back into my life, as that may not be a good idea, but it means I am free and I can also relate in a better way, not weighed down by emotions that I would be if I didn’t write them down.

I was blown away by the life changing result for Cheryl, because when she spoke at the workshop, it seemed pretty dire. Cheryl is also reading my book Freedom Writing. I am so thrilled by this result for Cheryl!😊

Thanks for reading. Stay tuned for my online course, which I will be discussing more about very soon. 😊 If you are interested in checking out my course now, visit here or download my free guide here to learn more about writing therapy and get started.

This is exactly why I run Expressive Writing Therapy workshops, and why I am launching an online course called Writing for Healing very soon, to show people the power of using writing to process our emotions and pain, so we can achieve more freedom and be healthier physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.

Have a great day! 😊 Suz