Mental Health & Faith: A Closer Look

40. Expressing Emotions (Writing for Recovery-Poetry)

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Expressing Emotions in a Healthy Way

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1.Identify your feelings

2.Understand why you feel the way you do

3.Learn how to express the emotion in a healthy way

4.Replace unhealthy mindset with a healthier one

Catch-It, Check-It, Change-It
      • Step 1 – Catch It.If your self-talk or other thoughts become unhealthy, catch what you’re thinking in your mind.
      • Step 2 – Check It. Step back be objective. Are your words true or based on emotion? How do your thoughts compare with reality? Is there a bigger picture you have neglected to see?
      • Step 3 – Change It. Turn the negative thoughts into positive, truthful statements or find something good that can come from a bad situation.

        • **Pray through this process and let the Holy Spirit heal your mind**

        Types of poetry

        Link to Masterclass.com – Poetry

        1. Free verse. Free verse poetry is poetry that lacks a consistent rhyme scheme, metrical pattern, or musical formFree verse poetry is poetry that lacks a consistent rhyme scheme, metrical pattern, or musical form. While free verse poems are not devoid of structure, they allow enormous leeway for poets, particularly when compared to more metrically strict forms like blank verse.
        2. Blank verse. Blank verse is poetry written with a precise meter-almost always iambic pentameter-that does not rhyme.
        3. Narrative poetry. Similar to an epic, a narrative poem tells a story. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere” and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” exemplify this form. Learn more about narrative poetry here.
        4. Lyric poetry. A lyric poem is a short, emotionally expressive poem with a songlike quality that is narrated in the first person. Unlike narrative poetry, which recounts events and tells a story, lyric poetry explores the emotions of the speaker of the poem. Lyric poetry originated in ancient Greek literature and was originally intended to be set to music, accompanied by a musical instrument called a lyre, which resembles a small harp. Lyric poetry traditionally follows strict formal rules, but because there have been many different types of lyric poetry over centuries, there are now various different forms of lyric poetry.
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