“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.” ― Joan Didion, The White Album “What the story teaches is that there is always another story and other stories have always been possible.” Arthur W. Frank, The Wounded Storyteller … as expressive writing enhances emotion regulation, it can play a key role in brain and immune physiology (Petrie, et al., 2004, Pennebaker, 2014). …benefits of expressive writing come from identifying, labeling, and integrating negative emotions into t

In Musicophilia (2007) Oliver Sacks wrote about the therapeutic potential of music to help calm, animate, comfort, organize, and synchronize humans. Music Therapists Schneck and Berger (2006) developed a system using music to calm and redirect fear responses for persons with easily activated sympathetic nervous systems. Music has also been used as a therapeutic treatment for such physiological conditions as chronic pain (Patrick, 1999). Patrick, G. (1999). The effects of vib