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Live Happy Now

Live Happy Now

Health & Fitness:Mental Health

EP63: Joshua Smyth - How Expressive Writing Improves Your Happiness

EP63: Joshua Smyth - How Expressive Writing Improves Your Happiness

2016-05-03
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Joshua Smyth, Ph.D., is a professor of Biobehavioral Health andMedicine at Penn State and co-author of the upcoming bookOpening Up by Writing It Down–How Expressive Writing ImprovesHealth and Eases Emotional Pain. Joshua was interviewed for anarticle in our latest issue of Live Happy magazine abouthow a 20 minute practice of creative writing can help make youhappier, healthier and more resilient. In this episode of LiveHappy Now, we talk with him about how expressive writing canhelp manage stress and improve well-being.

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