Psychologies

Write the bad, feel the good

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places”
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

RECENTLY, I EXPERIENCED a lingering hesitancy to write in my journal. I am well accustomed with the findings of social psychologist James Pennebaker’s study on how writing about

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