plus: tickets are now on sale for "Coming Home to Ourselves: a Course for Neurodivergent Creatives" || plus plus: photos! of the home reno project! including the yellow ceiling! (iykyk)
It really does take a lot of time to have enough insight to write about the past, I find -- and to do so without (as many) agendas, or without it retraumatizing you as the writer. I have shot off the hip too soon before and regretted it. And when writing about life is given enough time to ferment, I can hear the difference. It has a quality of reflection and calm even when the subject is grim. And it mostly feels good to write about the past once you have that clarity. Glad you can look that way now at such a traumatic period in your life!
I read somewhere recently that so often we learn something new and immediately want to share it, but (CW for graphic bodily metaphor) it is as if we are vomiting it back up because we haven’t fully metabolised it yet.
It really does take a lot of time to have enough insight to write about the past, I find -- and to do so without (as many) agendas, or without it retraumatizing you as the writer. I have shot off the hip too soon before and regretted it. And when writing about life is given enough time to ferment, I can hear the difference. It has a quality of reflection and calm even when the subject is grim. And it mostly feels good to write about the past once you have that clarity. Glad you can look that way now at such a traumatic period in your life!
I read somewhere recently that so often we learn something new and immediately want to share it, but (CW for graphic bodily metaphor) it is as if we are vomiting it back up because we haven’t fully metabolised it yet.