6 Helpful Ways to Cope with Loneliness
06.20.23
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s office recently released a report titled “Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation: The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on the Healing Effects of Social Connection...
Journaling
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In Tough Times, Take Charge of Your Own Story
04.16.20
With COVID-19 running rampant and social distancing the expectation, these are unsettling and unprecedented times. Quite suddenly, everything is different. My typically frenetic home life is quiet. No...
7 Dementia Care Tips From a Caregiver Who Understands
04.04.19
Rosalie Wosepka of St. Paul, MN, used writing and storytelling to document her journey alongside her husband, John, helping him to navigate in the world after he was diagnosed, first with Parkins...
Wife Uses Power of Journaling to Cope After Husband’s Dementia Diagnosis
04.04.19
Throughout every step of living with her husband’s diagnosis of dementia, Rosalie kept writing in her journals. She credits her therapist for acknowledging that her feelings were real, and that she ...
Life After Diagnosis: How Illness Changed My Identity
07.12.16
In 1986, when I graduated from high school, I was voted “most likely to climb Mount Everest.” I thought I would do it, if not actually, then at least symbolically. I pictured my life unfolding as ...
The Power of Journaling
12.09.14
Over the past few holidays as we’ve navigated the choppy waters of my husband’s terminal illness, I’ve discovered a surprising-yet-essential tool for processing through pain: the ordinary ink pe...
A Story that Started Right Here: Journaling About Cancer
05.22.14
Writing is something I have always enjoyed (well, with the exception of required research papers.) But a busy lifestyle as a teacher and mother hadn’t allowed time for much more than an annual holid...