Writing as a Tool in Finding Healing/Writing Pain, Trauma Workshop with Dr. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
In this workshop Dr. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley demonstrates how its common knowledge that recovery from any sort of illness comes first with DIAGNOSIS.
Just as diagnosis empowers us with knowledge about our illness, however painful that discovery
is, knowing is good. Writing down a traumatic experience is similar to diagnosis, and gives one a
feeling of not only power, but also a connection to HEALING because of the power of
ADMISSION
How is healing connected to the admission of something?
Like illness, the pain of GRIEF, LOSS, DISASTER, or the Pain of losing a family member in a
pandemic as we are currently still experiencing, can be traumatic. There are other kinds of
traumas, like rape, (for those who have experienced rape, or sexual exploitation, etc.) that when
buried can destroy one’s life. How do we navigate such painful times in our lives? As one who
has experienced all kinds of tragedies, traumas, including war, cancer, the sudden loss of my
mother, siblings, relatives, due to the war, I have used writing for more than thirty years as a tool
in finding healing.
In this workshop, you will explore those deep places in your hearts, in your lives, revisit those
often invisible and painful places, those buried feelings which often pop up unexpectedly to ruin
our lives, read some poems about pain, and write poems that heal and restore.
In this workshop Dr. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley demonstrates how its common knowledge that recovery from any sort of illness comes first with DIAGNOSIS.
Just as diagnosis empowers us with knowledge about our illness, however painful that discovery
is, knowing is good. Writing down a traumatic experience is similar to diagnosis, and gives one a
feeling of not only power, but also a connection to HEALING because of the power of
ADMISSION
How is healing connected to the admission of something?
Like illness, the pain of GRIEF, LOSS, DISASTER, or the Pain of losing a family member in a
pandemic as we are currently still experiencing, can be traumatic. There are other kinds of
traumas, like rape, (for those who have experienced rape, or sexual exploitation, etc.) that when
buried can destroy one’s life. How do we navigate such painful times in our lives? As one who
has experienced all kinds of tragedies, traumas, including war, cancer, the sudden loss of my
mother, siblings, relatives, due to the war, I have used writing for more than thirty years as a tool
in finding healing.
In this workshop, you will explore those deep places in your hearts, in your lives, revisit those
often invisible and painful places, those buried feelings which often pop up unexpectedly to ruin
our lives, read some poems about pain, and write poems that heal and restore.
In this workshop Dr. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley demonstrates how its common knowledge that recovery from any sort of illness comes first with DIAGNOSIS.
Just as diagnosis empowers us with knowledge about our illness, however painful that discovery
is, knowing is good. Writing down a traumatic experience is similar to diagnosis, and gives one a
feeling of not only power, but also a connection to HEALING because of the power of
ADMISSION
How is healing connected to the admission of something?
Like illness, the pain of GRIEF, LOSS, DISASTER, or the Pain of losing a family member in a
pandemic as we are currently still experiencing, can be traumatic. There are other kinds of
traumas, like rape, (for those who have experienced rape, or sexual exploitation, etc.) that when
buried can destroy one’s life. How do we navigate such painful times in our lives? As one who
has experienced all kinds of tragedies, traumas, including war, cancer, the sudden loss of my
mother, siblings, relatives, due to the war, I have used writing for more than thirty years as a tool
in finding healing.
In this workshop, you will explore those deep places in your hearts, in your lives, revisit those
often invisible and painful places, those buried feelings which often pop up unexpectedly to ruin
our lives, read some poems about pain, and write poems that heal and restore.
