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Blogging as Therapy
By Jeremy | May 7, 2008
“Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.”
It should come as no surprise to people who believe this that blogging, like television talk shows before it, has taken on a therapeutic affect for some participants (including yours truly). CNN describes it like this:
Writing long has been considered a therapeutic outlet for people facing problems. A 2003 British Psychological Society study of 36 people suggested that writing about emotions could even speed the healing of physical wounds: Researchers found that small wounds healed more quickly in those who wrote about traumatic personal events than in those who wrote about mundane activities.
But it’s the public nature of blogs that creates the sense of support.
Reading someone else’s blog can be surprisingly beneficial… .
Speaking of, here are three recent examples of grieving parents whose therapeutic blog posts have inspired me as a father.
+ Katy Stevens (remembering Caleb)
+ Christine A. Scheller (remembering Gabriel)
+ Mr. Dueck (remembering Renee)
Perhaps most moving of all, for me, was following Rudy’s Psalm 34 blog after his then 4-year-old was diagnosed with leukemia.
Related
+ Remembering Abuelo, Nonna, and Cub.
Topics: blogging, grief, loss, therapy |
May 7th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Thats pretty interesting study. I know of a grieving mom who put up a web-blog for her daughter…a former student of our Academy. It has helped the grieving process for her.
May 8th, 2008 at 4:41 pm
If that is the case why are so many liberal.left wing bloggers still so angry and bitter?