Opening Up:  The Healing Power of Expressing Emotions is a reference well-known for its excellent scientific exploration into and articulation of the ways that disclosing our deepest troubles can make us well.  Dr. Pennebaker’s research on stress, emotion, and health has provided us a wealth of information on the relationships between writing about painful emotion and physical health, historical trauma and the immune system, self-disclosure and risk, and the strength of the mind-body connection to heal the oldest, deepest of hurts.
 
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