Writing the hard things (and why it helps)
Expressive writing, with the evidence
What you learn hereExplain how expressive writing gives shape to experience and eases rumination, its honest dose —three or four 15–20 minute sessions— and what separates a text that moves on from one that circles back.
This page summarises the lesson and cites its sources. The full lesson —animated, narrated, with its practice— opens with the Lifetime Pass, along with the rest of the course and everything to come.
See the Pass — CA$39 →SourcesPennebaker, Mayne & Francis, 1997 · Frattaroli, 2006 · Paquin et al., 2021 — expressive writing · Updated 2026-07-25