122 - How Writing Can Shape Your Past, Present, & Future (feat. Allison Fallon)

CXMH: On Faith & Mental Health

This week we talked with Allison Fallon, author of the new book The Power of Writing it Down: A Simple Habit to Unlock Your Brain and Reimagine Your LIfe. She talks to us about the benefits of writing in terms of processing your memories, understanding yourself, and more. Allison is the founder of Find Your Voice, as well as the author of a number of books.

Things we mention in this episode/other resources:

• ep. 120 - Lies We Face (& Truth We Need) Along The Journey (feat. Hannah Brencher)
• the episode of The Faith & Mental Wellness Podcast that Holly was on

Connect with Allison on her website, Twitter, or Instagram.

Connect with Find Your Voice on it’s website, Facebook, or Instagram.

Buy The Power of Writing It Down on Amazon.

Quotes:

“I believe deep down in my soul that writing has the power to create positive change in your life.” (tweet)

“If you change behavior from the frontal cortex, you’re gonna feel like you’re white-knuckling it, like you have to exercise all this discipline, and it will only work for a certain period of time.” (tweet)

“Writing is communication. Writing is self-discovery. Writing is a way to capture memories from your life. Writing can be a means of processing, it can be meditation, it can be spirituality, it can be prayer.” (tweet)

“If you think that your story is the one story that nobody cares about hearing…I want you to really think about what that means.” (tweet)

“The minute you bring an audience into [writing] is the minute you cut yourself off from your deepest thoughts & feelings about a subject.” (tweet)

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Intro/Outro music for this episode is ‘Fall Down’ by Rivers & Robots.