Dr. James Pennebaker has spent years studying how people cope with trauma, both as individuals and as part of a community. He’s a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and is author of the book Writing To Heal: A Guided Journal for Recovering from Trauma and Emotional Upheaval. In his research Pennebaker has followed the after effects of the Loma Prieta earthquake, and towns that experienced mass shootings, among other events and shares what he’s found.
You can learn more about Pennebaker’s writing process to heal trauma here.