What Writing Can Help Us Do
by Parker · 14 things on Twos
- Name our experience so we can more fully understand it.
- Give language to the future we want to create so it stops feeling vague and begins to seem achievable.
- Build a bridge (neural pathways) between the now we’re experiencing and the future we’d like to create.
- Heal and engineer our own resilience from past experience.
- Find perspective for life’s challenges, large and small.
- Invent brand-new solutions for age-old problems.
- Build our confidence.
- Increase our working memory and overall cognitive power.
- Cultivate more gratitude and contentment.
- Provide clarity for our decisions.
- Increase satisfaction in our romantic partnerships.
- Level up our immune system, help us sleep better, etc.
- Combat and curb anxiety, stress, and depression.
- Tune out the well-meaning and critical voices around us so we can finally understand what we think.