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

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.

Words make it possible for our thoughts to travel through time and survive us.

Even amid our problems we can find words that will help us explore, be mindful, grow, and create a better way of living.

Life is beautiful, and my words have allowed me to find and revel in that beauty.

When troubled, we need to burrow down in a comfy spot, find the form of words that works best, and write.