Résilience et écriture

Resilience and writing

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  • Le vendredi, 29 mai 2020
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Books on resilience are flourishing. I live in France where this innovative positive concept has been introduced by the neuropsychiatrist Boris CYRULNIK. 

The benefits of writing

Résilience physique

Physical resilience is the ability of an object to return to its initial state after a shock or continuous pressure. In psychology, being resilient expresses the ability to bounce back in the face of adversity.Résilience ; vers le largeVarious elements can affect us : a mourning, a relationship break-up, the coronavirus crisis, a job loss, along with others. They produce moments of anger, sadness, or misunderstanding.


Writing helps to overcome hardships and shortcomings. Putting down on paper (or a screen) what hurts and prevents you from moving forward creates distance and awareness.  It is a safety valve. Expressing one's emotions in words that clarify the experience can heal wounds and prevent trauma from being imprinted. It allows you to find meaning and to come back stronger.

 

I advise you to read Tim Guenard's incredible testimony, "Stronger than Hate : Struggling to Forgive" and "Option B" from Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, who wrote after the accidental death of her husband in 2015.Fleur roc

Why write rather than talk?
Writing brings a change of perspective, helps us to see our misfortune differently, to make it an object of observation outside ourselves. We can also write memos that allow us to defer a thought and that can be reworked, until anger and pain are dissolved through words.
Speaking creates interaction with a responsive and influential interlocutor, while writing allows introspection and greater distance.
The writer Scholastique Mukasonga - who left Rwanda and the Tutsi genocide - wrote so that the tragic past of this country would not be the future of her children. There are many other examples where writing in all its forms (novel, autobiography, poetry, ...) has facilitated the work of resilience.

Writing is a creative process that can help turn lead into gold. 

I’d love to hear your experience in the comments section below. You can comment on this post and/or share it. Sharing is caring !​Poésie Laurence

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Commentaires

  • Dianne Holster
    • 1. Dianne Holster Le jeudi, 04 juin 2020
    Journaling transformed my life. It comforted me during the loneliest and toughest times of my life, struggling to make positive change. It's like free therapy.
    • Bénédicte Roy-Heymans
      • Bénédicte Roy-HeymansLe lundi, 08 juin 2020
      Thank you for sharing. A quote comes to mind from Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, founder of the Plum Village in France : ”There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus." Writing helps transforming suffering.

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