Vent: The first ever fill in the blank reader participation book.: A Reader Participation Book: 1

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Consider the type of journal that you will use. A spiral-bound notebook, a lined notebook, or a composition book are good options if you plan on writing a lot. If you’d like to draw and express yourself, consider using a sketchbook. You should choose a typeface that is suitable for both drawing and writing. You can use a variety of materials, including paper that will be resistant to stains and abrasions.

The multiple layers of mouldings and twiddly details of classical architecture have proved useful for such deception, providing handy hiding places for grilles, vents and flues. When the Victoria Line was being constructed in the 1960s, residents of Gibson Square in Islington were horrified by the prospect of a concrete ventilation shaft erupting through their neat lawn. After a vocal campaign, classical architects Raymond Erith and Quinlan Terry were hired to provide a decorous disguise for the shaft, crafting a strange miniature temple topped with a cage-like dome, and a frieze appropriately derived from the Tower of the Winds in Athens. The Sewer Gas Destructor Lamp, to give the ingenious device its proper patented name, was invented by Birmingham engineer Joseph Webb in 1895, and it still serves the same purpose today. As a plaque explains, it burns off residual biogas from Joseph Bazalgette’s great Victorian sewer, which runs beneath the Victoria Embankment at the bottom of the lane. It is the last surviving sewer-powered streetlamp in London, but it is one of many such curious vents, shafts and funnels scattered across the city, servicing the capital’s underground workings in all manner of unlikely disguises, now brought together in a fascinating gazetteer, titled Inventive Vents. Repeatedly venting over and over and over again, can create friction in social relationships,” says Kross. “There’s often a limit to how much listeners, your friends, can actually hear.” You can also create a video using the same hashtag. This is a popular option if you have difficulty writing and cannot express your feelings verbally. In these cases, a vent book can help. It can help them to process their feelings, and can help them process the stress. Whether or not you decide to create a video with a vent book, you can use it to share your feelings with friends and family.

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For many years, psychologists believed that dark emotions, like anger, needed to be released physically. This led to a movement to “let it all out,” with psychologists literally telling people to hit soft objects, like pillows or punching bags, to release pent-up feelings.

The same is true of grief or anxiety following trauma. While we should of course seek support from those around us during difficult times of loss and pain, if we simply relive our experience without finding some way to soothe ourselves or find meaning, it could extend our suffering. For some time, people who worked with trauma victims encouraged them to “debrief” afterward, having them talk through what happened to them to ward off post-traumatic stress. But a randomized controlled study found that this didn’t help much, likely because debriefing doesn’t help distance people from their trauma. Similarly, students who vented their anxiety after 9/11 suffered from more anxiety up to four months later than those who didn’t. As the study authors write, their “focus on and venting of emotions was found to be uniquely predictive of longer-term anxiety.” My Vent Books are structured venting journals to offload your overthinking mind and help get a better nights sleep. After writing down your busy brain and mind dump it into your book to unwind and relax more.. you can build a better daily resilience and become more aware of yourself and your emotions/feelings. Ann: ‘The new series features Inspector Detective Matthew Venn but I hope it will be more of an ensemble piece so we find out a little bit more about his colleagues, Jen Rafferty, who’s a scouser who has escaped an abusive marriage and moved down to North Devon, and very much local boy Ross May. Journaling is proven to be a great pressure releasing valve and increase well-being. This can also improve mood, lower blood pressure and maybe even help with fewer stress – related doctor visits!This book is pretty much a rant book, where I talk about things that are bothering or things that I'm excited about, but nobody can listen. If you know me irl, pretend that this never existed. There's a good reason why I don't tell people, that I know, my problems. Language: English Words: 985 Chapters: 2/? Hits: 31 Gold standard … William Whitfield’s Corinthian column in Paternoster Square. Photograph: Beatrice Cox Venting through social media can do the same thing. In one study, researchers surveyed students attending Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University after mass shootings occurred at each campus to see how venting their grief over social media helped them recover. While students thought that venting was beneficial, their post-traumatic stress and depression scores actually went up the more they vented. Talking and listening with care I know that I am guilty of wanting someone to listen to me when I’m upset—and not wanting advice right off the bat. If I’m in the midst of pain, trying to talk me out of my feelings or to offer pat solutions seems insensitive or even patronizing. Ann: ‘I like really complex locations, places that hit you and strike you. Places that have different communities within them. I grew up in North Devon so I know it quite well and I like that mix of cosiness – we think of Devon as having cream teas and thatched cottages and there is a little bit of that about it but there’s more rugged and left behind than people realise and because it has Ilfracombe, an old-fashioned seaside town, with big hotels and guest houses, they’ve now become hostels for the homeless, places where drifters and transients come and go and I like very much that mix of different people.’