Building Resilience

Friends

Interior Dialogue with Departed Friends

Joyce Hocker Ph.D. on June 26, 2018

Experiment with writing interior dialogues and using active imagination techniques to continue intra-psychic conversations with departed loved ones.

Experiment with writing interior dialogues and using active imagination techniques to continue intra-psychic conversations with departed loved ones.

Depression

Remainders: Sorting Through Possessions After a Death

Joyce Hocker Ph.D. on April 11, 2018

What do we do with personal objects left behind when a loved one dies? Carefully curating and discerning how to disperse their objects helps the grieving process.

What do we do with personal objects left behind when a loved one dies? Carefully curating and discerning how to disperse their objects helps the grieving process.

Trauma

Writing for Healing

Joyce Hocker Ph.D. on March 17, 2018

Your writing, whether in your journal, personal essays, letters, memorial writing or expressive writing, can help you heal. Research supports expressive writing for healing.

Your writing, whether in your journal, personal essays, letters, memorial writing or expressive writing, can help you heal. Research supports expressive writing for healing.