• Opening Up by Writing It Down, Third Edition: How Expressive Writing Improves Health and Eases Emotional Pain

  • By: James W. Pennebaker, Joshua M. Smyth
  • Narrated by: Douglas James
  • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (47 ratings)

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Opening Up by Writing It Down, Third Edition: How Expressive Writing Improves Health and Eases Emotional Pain

By: James W. Pennebaker, Joshua M. Smyth
Narrated by: Douglas James
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Expressing painful emotions is hard - yet it can actually improve our mental and physical health.This lucid, compassionate audiobook has introduced tens of thousands of listeners to expressive writing, a simple yet powerful self-help technique grounded in scientific research. Leading experts James W. Pennebaker and Joshua M. Smyth describe how taking just a few minutes to write about deeply felt personal experiences or problems may help you:

  • Heal old emotional wounds
  • Feel a greater sense of well-being
  • Decrease stress
  • Improve relationships
  • Boost your immune system

Vivid stories and examples yield compelling insights into secrets, self-disclosure, and the hidden price of silence. The third edition incorporates findings from hundreds of recent studies and includes practical exercises to help you try expressive writing for yourself. It features extensive new information on specific health benefits, as well as when the approach may not be helpful.

Opening Up by Writing It Down is wonderfully narrated by Douglas James, and comes with a downloadable PDF, which includes all writing exercises contained in the book.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2016 The Guilford Press (P)2019 Echo Point Books & Media, LLC

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Writing to Heal Helps!

This book gave me concrete ways to help me use writing about the hard parts in my life in a way that is healing.

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Enlightening: Illuminating the Power of Expressive Writing

Love this book! Very Enlightening: Illuminating the Power of Expressive Writing. As an avid journaler I was blown away by this hopeful science. Thank you to the authors for this pioneering work

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enlightening

found it very interesting but a bit hard to follow. narration could have been better.

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Narrator does not know the authors name!

The authors name is JAMES, not “Jaime”. His use of the wrong name is annoying. It’s a pretty basic aspect of doing this kind of work.

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