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Words for Wellbeing : Using Creative Writing to Benefit Health and Wellbeing by Carol Ross; Jim Eldridge; Marilyn Messenger; Elizabeth Gates; Gillie Bolton; Lisa Rossetti; Eileen O'Reilly; Veronica Howard-Jones; Victoria Field; Suzanne Kelsey; Jessica Mary Lucas; Katie Metcalfe; Sylvia Stevens; Lee Habbershon is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Words for Wellbeing : Using Creative Writing to Benefit Health and Wellbeing about?

This book came to fruition through one womans passionate belief that writing is good for your health. In Words for Wellbeing, Carol Ross has united chapters from individuals and practitioners who describe how they have used creative words in healing ways with stories, poetry and therapeutic writing. The chapters are interwoven with poems, images and prose, and over 50 people gave their creative work to the book. Following a Year of Writing project in an NHS trust, Carol shares her experiences, including leading writing groups in mental health wards. There are moving, personal accounts of writing during recovery from injury or illness and, on a practical level, invaluable advice from experienced therapists and practitioners. Writing helped Katie Metcalfe to rebuild her life: Aged 15, I was admitted into a psychiatric hospital, weighing a meagre five and a half stone. I still believed I was overweight. I thought if I couldnt maintain my routine, there was no point living. But something kept me going. That something was writing. Exemplified by poems from Sir Andrew Motion and Penelope Shuttle, Poetry Therapist Victoria Field describes how poetry can be therapeutic, and she shares exam

Author

Carol Ross; Jim Eldridge; Marilyn Messenger; Elizabeth Gates; Gillie Bolton; Lisa Rossetti; Eileen O'Reilly; Veronica Howard-Jones; Victoria Field; Suzanne Kelsey; Jessica Mary Lucas; Katie Metcalfe; Sylvia Stevens; Lee Habbershon

Publisher

Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780957284906