The Power of Writing It Down

A Simple Habit to Unlock Your Brain and Reimagine Your Life

By: Allison Fallon

Narrated by: Allison Fallon

Discover the power of (finally) getting unstuck, claiming your clarity, and becoming the person whose life you want to live - all through a simple self-care practice you can build into your daily routine.

For anyone who's trying to make sense of their life, who wants to get unstuck from the patterns that hold them back, hear this incredible news: everything you need for the freedom you want is entirely within reach. This practice and pathway is free, it's readily available every day of your life, it takes just minutes of your time, and anyone can do it.

Author, writing coach, and speaker Allison Fallon's life transformed when she discovered the power of a daily writing practice. As it turns out, using your words is one of the most powerful means you have for unlocking your life. The Power of Writing It Down is your guide to this transformative tool available to us all. In as little as five to 20 minutes a day, scientific research shows this daily practice can help you:

• Identify your ruts and create new neurological grooves toward better habits
• Find fresh motivation and take ownership of your life
• Heal from past pain and trauma
• Relieve anxiety and depression
• Contextualize life's setbacks and minor frustrations
• Live a more confident, balanced, and healthy life
• …and so much more

Drawing from years of coaching hundreds through the writing process - from first-timers to New York Times best-selling authors - Allison shares tried and tested practices for getting started, staying inspired, and using this simple habit to shift how you feel and show up to your life. Pen and paper is simply the method, but the reward is the real magic: new depths of self-discovery, creativity, and intentionality for living.

©2021 Allison Fallon (P)2021 Zondervan

Critic reviews

"Fallon, founder of Find Your Voice, a writing community focused on mental health and self-improvement, blends writing advice and insights from brain science in this accessible guide to changing one's life.... Any self-help reader will find comfort and clarity in Fallon's simple tips for improvement through self-expression." (Publishers Weekly)

An outstanding book for understanding one self.

To journal your daily emotions or situations that upset you can help you get over the anxiety, and anger for staters. Read this book to change your life.

I have listened to this at least 3 times.

This book is packed with exercises, takeaways and life examples. I haven't looked in to any other titles on the topic but I don't feel that I need to. I felt like it was that good.

Hope to move what is stuck.

Weather you are a novice at writing or experienced there is something in this Book for everyone. Great techniques for incorporating writing into daily living and use of writing to create change. Just wish the book had an accompanying PDF of writing prompts outlined.

Aspiring Writer

Love the basics of this book and appreciate the work Allison did! Wonderful job and good narration!

Wonderful. Everyone should read this book.

Even if I don’t start writing, this book adjusted my perspective of how I view my life,

My new favorite book

This isn't just for writers. I bought this thinking it would be the same formula as all the other "how to motivate yourself to write" books. What I found was a unique take on how writing makes your life better. That's kind of putting this great book in a tiny nutshell. The first time I read it, I found myself sharing some of the author's insights with my teen granddaughter. Each of my granddaughters requested journals for Christmas as a result.
I recommend this book for anyone who thinks.
As a disclaimer, I'd like to say I've lived long enough to know that sometimes words hit differently depending on how and when you hear them. If you don't get something from this book, I recommend reading again later down the line.

Great information

This really inspires a writing practice and all the reasons how and why it is an important practice.

The voice in writing

I’ve always had a nagging sensation to want to write. I never found myself actually sitting in front of a pen and paper to write my thoughts or feelings down. I took it upon myself when I saw this book to find inspiration to write. What a way to connect to how I have felt with the way the author describes our inner self and why writing is important. She describes the voice inside and relates it to our thoughts, our feeling and our experiences. I am challenged to want to hear more of my own voice inside. The pen and paper has finally been grasped. My story from within has started to come out. I look forward to continuing on this path so that my voice can be heard and inspire others to do the same as Allison Fallon has inspired me with this book. The power of writing is more powerful than we can imagine. Until you open yourself up and let it flow, you may always have that voice telling stories untold.

Inspirational and thoughtful

I appreciate the ways Fallon links a regular writing habit to improved mental health and self awareness. I’m grateful to have found this book when I needed it.

Great Content, needs a PDF

I am 3/4 of the way through the book and feel confident in saying that the content of this book has been overall, pretty great. Lots of new ways of thinking and writing. The premise of the book is really about how writing can help us know ourselves better and heal ourselves, which is exactly what I was hoping for, and by and large, the author delivers.

There are a few spots when it feels like the author drifts into her other expertise - being an author, which really didn't feel applicable, but fortunately, she came back to the main subject quickly.

The book lost a star because any audiobook that has exercises or activities in it should, IMO, also include a PDF of those exercises/activities. No one I know listens to audiobooks just sitting waiting to take notes. Most of us are listening while walking, working out, driving, etc. when it might not be safe to bookmark. Having the writing prompts in an accompanying PDF would have made the content much more actionable and helpful.