Therapeutic Writing

When it comes to treatment of physical illnesses and ailments, you would rely yourself to the traditional doctors and medicine widely available. But you can’t subscribe to the same values when it comes to healing, coping, or therapy treatment. Medicines cannot heal, and therapy cannot cure, in a traditional sense. While one can seek both out at the same time, they are not the same thing. One must look into other sources of help in order to heal, seperately from being cured from whatever ailment they may possess. This is where the idea alternative methods for the purpose of therapy comes in. Such examples are writing, music, dance, humor, and herbal therapies to list a few. Two such forms of alternative therapy methods that i’ve personally experienced …show more content…
Personal experiences, metaphors, and raw writing are all forms explored in his article. Personal experiences allow the writers to attribute their emotions to their writing, directly pairing the writing and the experience. Metaphors allow for the communication of an emotion or event to be expressed not by direct means, but by a means of which that can be indirectly expressed. Gibbons provides his own writings he has used for his own healing purposes as examples to his claims. His writing as a whole is shown similar to raw writing, and pertain to specific events or ideas that have happened in his life. Gibbon’s poem titled “On The Occasion of Your Marriage” tackles the idea of his mother and father’s time eventually running out, the clock being the narrator of the poem. This is one such example of the handful of poems Gibbons presents in his article. Although his writing is a bit disjointed, clunky, and not revised for grammatical errors, Gibbons shows the raw meaning that poems’ metaphors can hold. Gibbons own writing shows the ability and power that writing can have the heal from one’s own troubles. The two articles cited give way to the idea that writing is an effective method for one to be able to heal, cope, and understand events that have happened in their life or their own insecurities and