Healing Through Writing
I recently interview aspiring author Amelia Zachry on the Shamanic Author podcast. She used the word "cathartic" a few times, and as I was editing the podcast, I had to look up the definition. Cathartic—involving the release of strong emotions through a particular activity or experience.
When I read the definition, my jaw dropped. I thought to myself; it's like when I learned about the property emergence. Emergence is when a system is more than the sum of its parts. See, writing a book is deeper than just writing, editing, formatting, and publishing. Healing emerges, and the author has a transformation that is embedded into the book.
Thoughts have power, and when you write down your thoughts on paper, they become amplified. As a result, the angels, spirit guides, and shamans on the other side of the veil serving on your council perk up. "she is writing again," let's go listen to what she is saying and help heal her on a deeper level. At least, this is how my highest self explains it to me.
The act of expressive writing lights up your neurology and everything connected to deeper negative emotions, limiting beliefs, and trauma. A writer automatically has a third-person view while writing it all out, which alters the trauma; there is a lesson that allows the beliefs behind the trauma to be rewritten. As you write the book, blog, or journal entry, your brain is rewriting the actual memory. The rewriting of past events is cathartic and leads to a deeper transformation than you could ever imagine.
The essence of healing through writing is rewriting your trauma. For my clients, we go deep into their timeline using hypnosis and rewrite the emotions behind their trauma. Then the writing process flows even faster because trauma disconnects you from your highest self. Your highest self is the real author. Every author will tell you, it's like my mind falls away, and something comes over me as I start writing. Then during the self-editing phase, the timeline work goes deeper and solidifies the rewriting of past traumas.
The act of expressive writing isn't just psychological. There is a deep energetic transformation at a spiritual level, and this is why writing can be so healing. It's like opening yourself up to a reiki master, except that reiki master is yourself writing your own book. So powerful, isn't it?
Check my latest episode with Amelia Zachry as I interview her cathartic writing experience. We go deep into trauma and how writing it all changed her point of view, healed her, and gave her voice back. "I got so much more than a healing; I found my voice!"