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

And similar to writing our stories, sharing our stories holds the same promise of healing -- and connecting us. . . This process, too, will change you.

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

Experience your pain. Embrace your silence. When the time feels right, find your way back to your words -- and write.

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.