Again, if you get stuck, try to use a topic to get started, or a picture or song or image and write about that. It may take several times, but most people I ve talked to or been in groups with seem to be able to get a lot coming out pretty quickly. Why these should be effective, I m not really sure, but for many people they are. Collect a big pile of cutout words and pictures and lay them out. Then using a stiff piece of large paper, or a piece of poster board, and a glue stick, put them together- any way at all.
Some people use all words, some all pictures, and some both.
Maybe it did have some meaning. If you re stuck and detached about something you think you ought to have feelings about, even thinking about it, or journaling while listening to a piece of music you know is extremely emotional for you, make break the barrier. If you write songs or music, or want to try, that can be very effective. Putting the emotional context to your words, as music does, is pretty close to one of our recovery goals. Movement is powerful, but although all of the methods here can be too intense or too triggering and need to be done with some sense of that and how to handle it, movement seems to do this more often.