the repeated visiting of stressful and traumatic events in a structured way or even in a pseudo structured way as is the case when people first start journaling about that stressful or traumatic event on day one when it tends to be a pretty unstructured narrative that's actually been shown in the literature and then over the course of that second and third and fourth writing bout people not only shift the sort of language that they use to describe their feelings and that event as we talked about earlier but the degree to which there's a more coherent narrative placed on the structure of that writing increases with each subsequent bout of writing