15/05/2025
🖊Creative Writing🖊
Creative writing, poetry, storytelling... art.. art in any form is incredibly therapeutic. We can connect more deeply with our feeling parts when we connect pen to paper.
Research completed by Baikie and Wilhelm (2005)(1) deduced that writing about stressful and traumatic events can improve both physical and mental health both in clinical and non-clinical environments.
When I am low or anxious I find myself more drawn to poetry and writing as a way of articulating and processing what I am experiencing.
Caleshu, Waterman and Kemp (2023) who completed research on the impact of poetry on mental health during Covid reported respondents "feeling closer to others, feeling better able to process their feeling about the pandemic, feeling less isolated and finding solace"(2)
Here is one of my more cheerier poems, inspired by beautiful women in flowing Spring dresses, surrounded by friendship and feminine music 💜
(1)Baikie, K.A. and Wilhelm, K. (2005) 'Emotional and physical health benefits of expressive writing,' Advances in Psychiatric Treatment, 11(5), pp. 338–346. https://doi.org/10.1192/apt.11.5.338.
Caleshu, A., Waterman, R. and Kemp, S. (2023) 'Poetry and COVID-19: the benefit of poetry and the poetryandcovidarchive.com website to mental health and wellbeing,' Journal of Poetry Therapy, 37(3), pp. 198–218. https://doi.org/10.1080/08893675.2023.2250921.
