Psychological trauma is bad for your health. The stress of abuse, violence, or the unexpected death of a loved one can cause all sorts of health problems. People suffering after these events may stop ...

As an advocate of writing for healing, I often find that there are students in my workshops who are trying to come to terms with past traumas. A large number of those dealing with such traumas have ...

Trauma differs for everyone — it's caused by varying events or experiences one has gone through — and there are instances where it may progress into post-traumatic stress disorder. Licensed mental ...

Every day—through TikTok, Instagram, and Zoom—the internet forces us to think about how we present ourselves to the world, giving us endless opportunities to construct our identities anew. Little ...

Four of the women who took part in the "Close to Home" memoirs project, including Jennifer McCall, left. (Courtesy Crittenton Women's Union/Richard Howard Photography) For many people who've endured ...

“I want to use your work, D,” a good friend who teaches high school English — I’ll call her Vee — told me at a mixer, in front of a couple of artists we hang out with. “But it is triggering. It’s so ...

From trauma to self-understanding, intuitive writing offers a structured way to process emotion, reduce distress, and restore ...

Columnist Diane Cameron has authored three books. Her most recent publication dealt with her stepfather's traumatic military history. Even as a young child, Diane Cameron knew that newspapers and the ...

Over the last year, Maryland psychotherapist Kerry Malawista noticed frontline health care workers struggling with what she called "the ghosts of the COVID deaths they carry." Borrowing the expression ...

Why do we tell stories, and how are they crafted? In a new series, we unpick the work of the writer on both page and screen. Former Fairfax journalist and lawyer Cynthia Banham voices the silenced ...

Hours after submitting to my editor my draft of a long, reported magazine feature about my alma mater’s campus rape problem, I woke up screaming from a horrifying dream about being drugged and raped.