BRIGHT BITE: 3 Easy Ways to Brainstorm New Therapist Blog Topics
One of the most harrowing parts of writing and polishing your own blog posts on a regular basis is the moment when you have to face the dreaded blank page. How are you supposed to keep coming up with blog topics that are related to your practice, that people want to read, and that don’t become repetitive?
The solution can be wonderfully simple – expand your topic library with a classic brainstorming session.
Here are 3 Easy Ways to Brainstorm More Therapist Blog Topics for your practice.
1. Draw A Mindmap
Visualizing your thoughts can be very helpful for writer’s block. A “mind-map” is a brainstorming technique where you literally draw connections between your different ideas.
Write out the main specialties or focuses of your practice in the center of an unlined sheet of paper, and then circle what you’ve written. Next, surround that circle with similar ideas and topics, connecting each one to your main topic by a line.
Keep on branching out with more ideas from those ideas, and more ideas from those ideas, until you have more than you need!
2. Write Down Your Thoughts
If you’ve ever kept a diary, this technique should come easily to you. Start by opening up a new document or page and simply start writing everything that’s going through your head as you think about blog topics – and we mean everything. Write down your thoughts as they cross your mind.
The result will probably be a messy, long-winded piece of text, but it’s a very useful tool! Carefully read back what you’ve written, looking for clues you missed the first time around. Does your writing keep using a certain phrase or idea? Did you have a stray thought earlier that seems more valuable now than it did before? There can be gold in there if you’re willing to go digging for it.
3. Research Your Competition
When it feels too difficult to inspire yourself, let someone else do it for you! Head over to Google and type in the sort of search phrase you’d expect would find your own blog, then check out some of the other results. While it’s important to never directly steal someone else’s blog topic, it’s definitely okay to let other articles inspire some of your own new ideas.
For example, did you find an article you like titled, “4 Ways to Help Manage Anxiety On-the-Go”? Maybe you could write an article about, “5 Exercises to Manage Anxiety at Work.”
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