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Do you want to be free and heal from stress, pain and trauma? This inspiring journal writing therapy book provides simple techniques to use to heal yourself from stress, depression and anxiety, that can occur in our daily lives.

"Excellent Book! I highly recommend this!"

"I enjoyed reading this book very much. It was very positive and helpful. A great way to deal with negative emotion and energy. Strongly recommend."

"I cannot recommend this book enough. The lessons and help I received are invaluable... I highly recommend it."

"So glad I found this book, worth 1000 times the amount. Well done and thank you to the author."

"What a fantastic book! Suzanne has provided a range of tools for readers to use to work through a range of issues from PTSD to sexual abuse, as well as anxiety and depression."

Based on ten years of research, and personal experience Suzanne guides the reader to freedom from emotional and physical pain. Suzanne uses her own experiences and life, combined with the experience of others with her workshops in writing therapy to show people how to use these easy techniques to be free. This book also includes research that enlightens readers about the benefits of writing therapy and the psychological research into this area of art therapy. It is a journal writing book that provides completely simple but profound methods to achieve freedom from everyday stress, trauma or memories people cannot be free from.

Freedom Writing provides valuable insight, encouragement, advice and easy to use techniques to help and inspire anyone who have ever experienced pain or stress. Reading this book will allow you to heal yourself from bad memories or past emotional pain. Use effective handwriting techniques to free yourself, whilst also working with your counsellor or therapist.

Length: 107 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Page Flip: Enabled	Language: English	Age Level: 13 - 18

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About the Author

Suzanne Strong is a qualified journalist and writer with more than 20 years' experience. She has written for many publications over this time including being a Special Industry Reporter for Hotel Motel and Resort News and AMG Magazine for two years. Some of the publications she has worked for include: The New Internationalist, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Big Issue, Sportswoman, The Review Independent Monthly, AMG Magazine, Building Australia, Boardwalk Magazine, Australian Property Investor, amongst others. In addition to this, Suzanne also worked in Media Relations, Corporate Communications and tutored Journalism/Writing in the Creative Industries at QUT in Brisbane. Suzanne is completing a Master of Arts in Creative Writing at Macquarie University, she also has a Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing from QUT and has a collection of poetry and short stories published. Her short stories and poetry has been published in Compassion: A Creative Anthology, The Quarry Journal, Grapeshot Magazine, Studio Magazine, Time Off and Heretical magazines.In 2006, Suzanne's short story The Wall came 6th out of 300 entries in the Amazon Shorts, Short Story competition and in 2011 she received a Highly Commended Award from the Sunshine Coast Literary Association for her poem, Breathe. Suzanne taught Academic English at UQ College in Brisbane and has also taught Creative Industries subjects at QUT. Suzanne is currently writing a novel about the war in Syria. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 945 KB
Print Length: 107 pages
Publisher: Green Acre Publishing (24 January 2017)
Sold by: Amazon Australia Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B01MSB34DA
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Customer Reviews: 26 customer ratings
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #360,461 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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Sunny

I highly recommend it! Every now and then

Reviewed in Australia on 2 March 2017

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This is a book that I would share with people that I care about. I highly recommend it!

Every now and then, I feel this compulsion in my heart to share my experiences, from little stories about my favourite books or movies to something a bit deeper like my beliefs and spiritual journey. After spending some time to put my thoughts together about whatever was on my mind and after I had written about it; whether I shared it or not, I felt a release from that heavy feeling in my chest.

Through this book, I realized that it was part of the process of releasing my emotional burden which often held me back from moving on to other important tasks.

The author says in the book that writing therapy is not just for people who enjoy writing, but for anybody who has something to let go from their heart. While writing about our sources of anger, anxiety and other emotional burdens we carry on daily basis, the healing process is on!

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Jade

Highly recommended

Reviewed in Australia on 18 March 2017

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I have thoroughly enjoyed reading Freedom Writing by Suzanne Strong. I experience a fair amount of stress in my life and have done for many years. I am so pleased to have discovered this book and have now began to implement the techniques into my life. I am excited as to how it will help me now and hopefully even more so into the future as I look back on my past and remember certain events that perhaps I don't feel ready to discuss with others but might see it as beneficial to feel like I am sharing these with others. I highly recommend this book for those who suffer from stress, anxiety, depression and any other mental illness as well as for those who are looking for a way to get in touch with their inner thoughts and emotions.

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Powerful and a delight to read!

Reviewed in Australia on 31 January 2018

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A very insightful and enjoyable book!
I highly recommend for anyone who has gone through a traumatic or stressful time in their lives and is looking for a way to heal. This book not only gives you valuable steps in order to start your own writing therapy but tells of others who have done the same. This book has personally encouraged me to start my own writing therapy and I have recommendedthis book to my family and friends.

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Nelly Kelly

There is always damage.

Reviewed in Australia on 7 March 2017

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I thought I had nothing to free myself from when I was recommended to this book. I've realized everyone has damage from ghosts of their past. I thought inner strength came from picking up those ghosts, shoving them in your back pocket and moving forwards. I never thought to ever look at them again or even evict the burdon of them. You can be sooo much stronger and happier with a lighter load. So glad I found this book, worth 1000 times the amount , well done and thankyou to the author.

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Allison

I cannot recommend this book enough

Reviewed in Australia on 7 March 2017

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I cannot recommend this book enough. The lessons and help that I received are invaluable, the techniques used are easy to apply, but the deeply moving experience was unexpected and provided complete release from issues that were buried. This book helped me so much and the potential for it to help people coming out of trauma,or a very stressful situation is enormous. I highly recommend this book.

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Julia

A great way to deal with negative emotiom and energy.

Reviewed in Australia on 7 March 2017

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I enjoyed reading this book very much. It was very positive and helpful. A great way to deal with negative emotiom and energy.
Strongly recommend.

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Kylie Newland

Priceless

Reviewed in Australia on 14 February 2017

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Thank God for this incredibly caring, knowledgeable and accessible exercise. So simple to do and yet so effective. Don't hesitate to start. I wish I had done it years ago

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Sarah Doyle

Five Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 28 February 2017

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Excellent Book! I highly recommend this!

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Cathy Brooks

This Might Benefit Others, Especially Men

Reviewed in Canada on 10 December 2019

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I’ve been writing, as therapy my whole life so this concept was not new to me. I do agree with the author that it might benefit others, especially men.

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Pat Stanford, Award-winning Author & Poet

Some good thoughts, but could use another edit

Reviewed in the United States on 24 January 2019

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To view writing therapy as a new concept would be ridiculous. Anyone who writes already knows it's therapeutic qualities.
The author even states this at the beginning, yet continues as though it it is something new.

Ok so for those people who think it it is new, I continued reading. Anytime I purchase a book I expect to get something for the money. Truthfully, the only thing that I found useful was a small section at about 70% where we are given hands on practical exercises to help ourselves.

The book is repetitive, so if you think you read that same sentence before, you aren't crazy - you did. In one instance the exact sentence said the same way appeared on the same page only a paragraph down. This, and some typos would lead me to believe that another edit would be of be great benefit for future versions. All in all, some good thoughts for those who need prompting to write down feelings.

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Gary Marshall

An eye-opening guide on the benefits of writing therapy

Reviewed in the United States on 18 May 2020

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Evidently, writing therapy has been around awhile. I was not aware of it. Learning about writing therapy has been a new experience for me.

All of us at some point in our lives have experienced conflicts, stress, hurt or betrayal, wouldn’t you agree? Almost anybody could benefit from the information in this book.

I agree with the author, Suzanne Strong, when she says that most of us are unable to express our true deepest emotions when speaking to someone about our problems. Often, we censor ourselves when communicating with others.

Expressive writing therapy is the act of writing down deep emotional issues or events in our lives. Some of the basics include being totally honest with yourself, don’t worry about grammar, write it down on paper, no computers, and no one needs to see it. No audience! What you put down on paper is between you and you only.

I found it interesting that the author feels men can benefit the most from the information in this book. I can believe that because men tend to think that they must be strong and in control,and therefore are less likely to open-up about their problems.

Being a baby-boomer, I was glad to see that writing helps your cognitive skills, keeps the brain sharp, and engages your motor skills.

You will find exercises to deal with whatever problems you are having in your life. I will be working on the exercises and questions under the non-fiction/journaling form of therapy.

The author is well educated and has many accolades. But, more important is that she writes from her own experience.

The book is easy to read and understand. You will find some repetitiveness throughout the book. I still gave it five stars.

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Kerry

A Potentially Life-Changing Concept

Reviewed in the United States on 9 December 2018

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Full disclosure – I am a self-avowed personal development / self-help junkie. Life has always been good - I just enjoy doing what I can to be a better version of myself.

So I was a bit skeptical at first, because I’m not so sure I actually need any type of “therapy.”

This is me, dialoging with myself: “So I’ve had a great life. I’ve made a decent living. I’ve got a great wife and kids. I’m happy most of the time except when I’m sleeping, and then I’m asleep. So why would I need any type of therapy at all, including writing therapy?”

The answer is in my introduction above – as a guy who wants to improve himself, certainly there were/are areas in my life that could have been better. Maybe I didn’t always do my best job as a parent and husband. I remember clearly not giving 100% in school, because I had the brains to get by without working hard. Maybe life dealt me a couple of blows and I’ve just hidden those memories. And whether I know it or not, those old hidden memories are probably blocks to my living an even better life today.

For someone else, it could be about addressing an issue they are living with currently. For me, it’s about taking some of the things in my life that maybe didn’t go right, or maybe I didn’t handle as well as I could have, and changing the script. How powerful is that – I can simply re-write the scripts of parts of my life, make them flow better and end better, so today’s version of me functions better because of the newfound knowledge that I’ve ALWAYS functioned better.

The Good: Clear, concise, makes its point, and presents some absolutely unique principles. Well, the author cites other books on the same subject, but this one is the first I’ve read and the last I need.

The Bad: Because this was such a new and fascinating topic to me, there really wasn’t anything to not like.

Recommendation: If you are facing any type of challenges in your life, you should consider this approach and this book will help. If your life is generally good and you have no challenges, go back and read my personal observations – this book can help you no matter how things are going in your life.

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but I stopped writing "personal stuff" after my best friend in school read my diary

Reviewed in the United States on 3 July 2018

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I started writing since young, but I stopped writing "personal stuff" after my best friend in school read my diary. I no longer felt safe to write anything too personal. But at the beginning of this year something very traumatic happened and I couldn't put it out of my head until I sat down to write freely what I was feeling. It was the only thing that brought me some relief from that traumatic accident. This book really validated what writing did for me and thanks to the author I'll now write regularly again. Recently I just wrote my first poem in a long time, not for anyone to read but for myself as I was going through some personal challenges. Thank you for rekindling my love of writing and this time I'm writing for myself to be better. And for those who are still hesitating, pick up your pen today and experience the healing power of writing for yourself.

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Luv2read

There's a lot of value in this book

Reviewed in the United States on 30 August 2018

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There's much to gain from reading this book and help to be had. What I particularly liked was the part about words and the fact that once you put a word out there, there's no taking it back. Words create reactions, realities, and can do harm but they can also do the world of good. Freedom writing is therapeutic and the best part about it is it's safe; no one has to see what you have to say for it to benefit your heart and soul. Like breathing, drinking water, and listening to soothing music, some of the best things in life are free. Add freedom writing to this list.

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If you haven't tried it before it may help you

Reviewed in the United States on 8 August 2018

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Writing down your problems or struggles is not a new concept, I’ve come across it many times but never actually did it. I hoped buying this book would encourage me, and it did. Myself, like many other people in the world don't feel able to talk about my feelings so writing them down instead can be therapeutic. It's a release, even if no one ever sees the writing, you have somehow helped to unburden yourself, although it took time to get to the writing exercises I did find them useful.
If you haven't tried it before it may help you

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Jack's mom

What You Need to Use Writing as a Healing Tool

Reviewed in the United States on 10 January 2019

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This book is helpful on its own or with the guidance of a therapist to use writing to navigate the disappointments and traumas of life. The author balances research on the physical and mental health benefits of writing with the nuts and bolts of how to get started. The idea of writing with no audience in mind is freeing and useful for not feeling like you have to censor your words. For those suffering traumas, I would recommend only using with the help of a therapist as processing horrible memories can be too hard to do alone.

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Dastardly Ninja

An ok read, repetitive at times

Reviewed in the United States on 14 September 2018

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I only rated one star less than 5 because I noticed a great deal of redundancy in this book. After reading half the book, I felt like she just included a whole bunch of junk testimonies and kept repeating what she'd already made pretty clear on the subject . I mean jeez, there were even a couple of times I noticed she repeated an exact same sentence or phrase as what she said on the previous page. Quite honestly, this book could have been half of the length that it is and expressed it's main points just as well. Nevertheless, I did appreciate the ideas and prompts and the emphasis she puts on the importance of this therapeutic option in her book but like I said before, it bugged me when it began to feel like I was just rereading things over and over again. Good thing is, you won't finish this book without knowing the benefits from doing writing therapy and what next steps to take to do so.

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Writing as therapy

Reviewed in the United States on 18 June 2017

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Writing through your thoughts and feeling can bring about a release according to Suzanne Strong, a journalist, writer, and teacher of writing therapy workshops. In Freedom Writing, Suzanne includes methods of writing therapy, benefits, exercises and shares her own experiences as well as some of her workshop attendees.

For survivors of sexual abuse or assault, which suggests a more targeted approach, Suzanne's designed a tailored set of writing exercises. She says writing therapy is not a replacement for, but is a companion to normal counseling or therapy. The author’s voice clearly shines through in her personal story and her encouragement to start the process. The rest is up to you to make the commitment for the time and exercises.

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M. J. C. K.

Great book

Reviewed in the United States on 24 May 2019

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Writing for therapy has been used for almost as long as talk therapy has been around, there are even whole therapeutic orientations based on it. This book provides some background on that, reviews some of the relevant literature, and poses some ideas for ways to try it yourself. If you're thinking of trying writing as a way to further your healing, I, as a psychologist, recommend this book.

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Stella Carrier

Restrain-Free Writing

Reviewed in the United States on 18 September 2017

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This kindlebook of Freedom Writing; Be Free Through Writing Therapy by Suzanne Strong appealed to me because I actually have much to feel blessed about in life yet I do enjoy using writing as a tool to both continually grow my creativity and as a free vehicle for creative writing therapy. Suzanne Strong goes into what expressive writing entails and how it encourages more liberty emotion wise. Forms of writing therapy are discussed such as poetry, narrative, non-fiction/journaling, benefits of writing therapy, people’s experiences with writing therapy, and more.

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Amy B

Life-Changing Advice!

Reviewed in the United States on 11 November 2017

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If you have ever wondered if you could ever get over an issue in your life, then you have come to the right place to make that happen. No longer will you be stuck with the feeling that your past holds you back from your future. Freedom Writing guides you beyond all of your fears, worries, pains, and limiting beliefs to show you how amazing you truly are! Share this book with everyone you love and everyone you hate. Make a difference! Begin writing your own freedom story. This book drives home one point very clearly: You are loved!

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Miguel Panao

Write your freedom

Reviewed in the United States on 25 April 2020

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This book is an excellent starting point to a personal journey that changes your life forever. I recommend its reading to start writing your freedom.

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M. Reese

Good Writing Therapy Book

Reviewed in the United States on 6 October 2017

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I've always believed in writing therapy, even before I knew it was a thing. I would encourage people going through hard times to write down what they were experiencing, and then throw it away. This book is confirmation that writing therapy does help many people. I would recommend it to anyone who is struggling to overcome a hardship of any type.

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