Ebook: How to Write a New Life for Yourself: Narrative therapy and the writing solution (The E-CENT Narrative Therapy Series Book 1)

Writing can change lives! If you are struggling with emotional problems, it is normally best to see a counsellor, psychologist or psychotherapist, to get some help with your problems. One of the reasons that this is important is that, having your emotional pain witnessed, and validated, by a healing person, is hugely therapeutic.

However, it is obvious that many people cannot afford to resolve all of their psychological problems through the relatively expensive processes of counselling and psychotherapy. And many people are so sensitive about their problems that they would find it hard to trust a professional helper in a face-to-face situation. Therefore, it may often be necessary to turn to self-directed writing therapy.

This book will help you to learn how to write out your concerns - your worries, problems, emotional difficulties, life plans, trials and tribulations - so that they can be clarified, digested, re-framed, and subjected to processes of problem solving, decision making, and – if successful – filing them away in non-active ‘memory files’ which no longer trouble you. This has been shown, in scientific research, to resolve problems of depression, stress, and other emotional difficulties, and to improve immune functioning, creativity and personal productivity.

And this book will also help counsellors and therapists to introduce their clients to this most helpful process of self-management and self-therapy, by integrating elements of reflective and expressive writing into their face-to-face counselling processes.

This book is also broader than writing therapy as such. It also includes forms of guidance which could better be described as: writing for self-management; or writing for self-coaching.

Furthermore, it is obvious that people think-feel-perceive with their existing capabilities, based on their past experiences.

Therefore, to enhance and expand your potential for improving any aspect of your life, through the vehicle of writing, we have included some additional chapters. These will help you:

(1) To understand your emotions and how to manage them;

(2) To learn about ideal goals and life values, which you can then adapt and modify to suit yourself;

(3) To understand your emotional needs; and:

(4) To learn how to re-frame difficult experiences so that they show up as being more easily accepted; and, as a consequence, you can think-feel-act more self-supportingly in relation to difficulties from your past.


This book has the potential to transform your life! By using the writing strategies outlined in Chapters 2 and 3, below, you could write a new life for yourself; whether you are a counsellor or a counselling client; or neither; or both!

Who has benefitted from writing therapy?

"Expressive writing is a self-reflective tool with tremendous power. By exploring emotional upheavals in our lives, we are forced to look inwards and examine who we are. This occasional self-examination can serve as a life-course correction". Pennebaker and Evans (2014).

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This book is also broader than writing therapy as such.

It also includes forms of guidance which could better be described as: writing for self-management; or writing for self-coaching.

It will help you to manage your attitudes, feelings and goals. And to be more successful in every area of your life!