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Writing builds resilience by changing your brain, helping you face everyday challenges

  • Written by Emily Ronay Johnston, Assistant Teaching Professor of Global Arts, Media and Writing Studies, University of California, Merced
Writing builds resilience by changing your brain, helping you face everyday challengesWriting is a way of thinking and doing.AscentXmedia/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Ordinary and universal, the act of writing changes the brain. From dashing off a heated text message to composing an op-ed, writing allows you to, at once, name your pain and create distance from it. Writing can shift your mental state from overwhelm and despair to...

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