Research indicates that the process of Cyber Story Therapy will be a helpful and health enhancing experience for you before you even press the SEND button. That's because the act of simply writing your heartfelt story has a number of benefits, whether or not anyone actually reads what you have written. Writing about emotional issues has been proven to…

·      Boost your immune system. Research by James Pennebaker identifies correlations between written emotional expression and improved physical and mental health, including a strengthened immune system. Conversely, suppression of emotion results in apparent impairments to immune system functioning.  

·     Strengthen relationship bonds. Experiments by Pennebaker and fellow researcher R. B. Slatcher indicate that the written expression of thoughts and emotions about a relationship works toward the strengthening of that bond.

·      Improve memory. Kitty Klein, a researcher at North Carolina University, found that people who write expressively about stressful events have improved working memory over those who write about trivial things.

·     Improve the symptoms of physical illness. Researchers led by Joshua M. Smyth found that daily journal writing had a positive effect on the symptoms of asthma and rheumatoid arthritis. 

            While there is indisputable evidence that the process of telling your story is healing in and of itself, when you tell your story to a witness, or write it knowing it will be read by someone else, the potential benefits increase.