The Unsent Letter or Lincoln Letter – What Writing One Can Do for You and How to Avoid the Pitfalls
If you’re feeling angry or upset with someone, you may have seen the advice ‘write a letter to them expressing how you feel, but don’t send it’. Apparently (I found out when I was researching it), there isn’t one single name for this practice. I’ve seen it variously called an ‘unsent letter’, ‘expressive letter writing’,