writing.
"Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up a grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously." - Anne Lamott For me, writing is so achingly vulnerable. I also have to tell myself to lovingly chill the fuck out. The ache, the hunger, the desperation to be good and seen and admired and loved and accepted and understood is a whole lot of pressure to put some words on a page. In my work as a therapist, I often find myself inviting clients to consider the parts of themselves that they reject, hate, do not accept. In large part, I ask this of them because it's an all-too-familiar conversation I have with myself. What parts of me are presentable to the world, and what parts of me stay hidden away? What parts of me do I resent for existing and stuff down in shame? What parts of me do I ignore, d...
