Writing helps us focus and organize the experience

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Translating messy difficult experiences into language, essentially, makes them graspable. 

Pennibaker advocates limited writing or short spurts. He’s found that writing about emotional upheaval for just 15 to 20 minutes a day on four consecutive days can decrease anxiety, rumination and depressive symptoms and boost our immune systems.

I need to get back into writing more often.