Master Your Emotions With CBT, Expressive Writing & Music
What you'll learn
- Why expressive writing is beneficial to wellbeing and how it can be used to process emotions
- A new method for tolerating and managing emotions: interoceptive awareness
- A CBT technique for getting to the heart of what you think and how you feel
- Practice with different writing methods and durations
- A personal processing plan for your writing practice
- Practice with different types of music & sound and applying them to your writing practice
Requirements
- A desire to want to know more about emotions and how to manage them
- The time and space to write. At least 10mins per day during the course
- Comfortable putting pen to paper, or typing out how you feel
- Interested in reflecting on your emotions, and a safe space to do this work
Description
***UPDATED***
This course has been completely rewritten, re-recorded and updated January 2025
This course combines two powerful techniques for wellbeing: a therapeutic writing technique known as 'expressive writing' and CBT strategies for managing emotions.
I have also added an additional module on music and sound as an aid to our processing and we will look at binaural and bilateral sound as an aid to processing how you feel.
I have also included a four-part module on how to write about traumatic events.
At the end of the course you will come away with a quick, helpful strategy for managing how you feel, which you can use to offload and process you day to day emotions and manage everyday stress.
You will know how to tolerate and manage the feelings that come up for you whilst journaling, and you will also know when and how to do this and what methods work best for you. There is also an additional section on using music to help process emotions. You will leave this course with your own Personal Processing Plan to use whenever you need to offload and process complex life events and emotions. I hope you will regularly use the technique to 'check in', offload and process the events of a week so that feelings do not build up, and you have a sense of clarity over your life and what you feel.
I believe we can go through daily life and have lots of things happen that we don’t have time to think about and ‘process' emotionally, and these feelings do not go away. For example, if we feel sad about something, our instinct can be to distract ourselves rather than feel the sadness. Sometimes, we can be wary of feeling emotions and worry that they will overwhelm us. Distraction can be helpful, but it doesn’t help you process why you feel sad. So, how do we discharge and process our emotions in a manageable and not overwhelming way? Also, how do you write about traumatic events and manage the feelings that might come up if you were to do this? These are the questions I hope to answer for you in this course.
Who this course is for:
- People looking for a way to offload and process how they feel in writing
- People who are curious about their thoughts and feelings and looking for new ways to explore these
- Interested in journaling and want to go deeper
- Interested in self development and incorporating a writing practice into this
Instructor
- 4.2 Instructor Rating
- 10 Reviews
- 74 Students
- 1 Course
Hello I'm Donna Bottomley, an accredited psychotherapist, writing for wellbeing coach and author. I am also a songwriter in my spare time.
I've been a therapist since 1999. I am also trained in journal therapy and have a master's in music where I focused my research on bilateral sound for wellbeing.
I practice expressive writing personally and like to combine it with sound. I have found that writing and sound can be helpful ways of offloading and processing the events of the week.