The Gift of Writing

A poetic segment from The Stress Doc's Resiliency Rap: The Wit and Wisdom of "The Shrink Rapper" ™.

A Stress Doc "poetic essay" on the therapeutic and creative impact of head and heart writing. A great psychological or "Emotional Intelligence" resource for Stress Management along with Loss, Change, and Grief Resiliency classes/workshops; for senior students, staff, teachers, and administrators. Also, valuable in Creative Writing/Performance Arts classes. The verse evokes echoes of Dr. Seuss rhythm and rhyme. The Closing Summary says it all:


When soulful writing is your romance
You’re out on the floor; you’ve chosen to dance
With ideas and emotions, in all combinations
Wild and wise – from the pits to the skies
Blending purpose and passion, yet despite best intentions
Make room for regression, nurture some deviance
As you tango and gambol on the path of variance
Just remember, you always have a writer’s chance…to:

• Make sense of experience
• Justify one’s existence
• Plow through resistance
• Express vehemence
• Rework adolescence
• Demonstrate coherence
• Explore divergence
• Model persistence
• Cultivate a new fragrance
• Share your quintessence
and of utmost importance
• Reaffirm common essence!