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What does it mean?
Traumatic war experiences drove the author to write as a form of therapy.
In plain terms
Writing helped the author process war trauma.
What can you take from it?
Writing can heal emotional wounds.

Where it applies

  • post-traumatic stress
  • journaling
  • coping

Putting it to work

  • use journaling for processing
  • write through difficult events

Questions to consider

  • What are healthy ways to process trauma?

Another view

Not everyone responds to trauma by writing.

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