Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most upsetting experience in your life. Really let go and explore your feelings and thoughts about it. In your writing, you might… — James W. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
Holding back our thoughts, feelings and behaviors can place people at risk for minor and major diseases. — James W. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most upsetting experience in your life.… — James W. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
One of the most interesting results was part of a study my students and I conducted dealing with status in email correspondence. Basically, we… — James W. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
“Remember that this is the first of four days of writing. In today’s writing, your goal is to write about your deepest thoughts and… — James W. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
“Younger people could dredge up an impressive number of dark words to express their pain. As writers got older and older, their negative emotion… — James W. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
“Human relationships are not rocket science—they are far, far more complicated. We can get our top scientists together and send people to the moon.… — James W. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
Human relationships are not rocket science--the are far, far more complicated — James W. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
The act of not discussing or confiding the event with another may be more damaging than having experienced the event per se. — James W. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
“A guy might find a woman attractive but she might find him repulsive. The two must tango together. And LSM is capturing the dance—whereas… — James W. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
“early 1990s, Deborah Tannen, a linguist at Georgetown University, attracted international notice with her book You Just Don’t Understand. Her book, which was on… — James W. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
“The reason we is such a fun word is that half of the time it is used as a way to bring the speaker… — James W. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
“I’ve since learned that when someone changes the conversational direction, it serves as a powerful marker of what is on his or her mind.” — James W. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
“Remember to write continuously the entire twenty minutes. And never forget that this writing is for you and you alone. At the conclusion of… — James W. Pennebaker Copy Share Image
