Changing our perspectives allows us to shift from the mental trap of rumination -- or ruination -- to the empowerment of reflection.

Writing not only helps us make sense of living; it can help transform us.

Successfully writing our way through our hardships allows us to rediscover and fully experience our creativity.

Your personal writing can heal, grow, and transform your life. Give your words permission to change you.

If we want to write to heal, our words matter -- especially our positive words.

Words allow us to unravel the knot inside and to make sense of our loss, not bury it within. For in our sadness and pain, we can be remade. We can learn how to understand our trauma and give it a container -- a story -- to hold it.

Our story is the medium we use to interpret our life experiences and make sense of them.

There are thorny, unfinished chapters being written in our lives all the time. Writing can help us find our way through these challenges.

We can reframe and recast our lives -- not with lies, not with deceptions, but with the truth of who we are and of who we are choosing to become.