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Therapy Through Writing. What It Has Done For Me Through 2020.
I, like many others, have found writing a form of self-help or therapy. Writing grants us escapism. It also grants us fulfillment.
2020 has given us nothing to brag about. Sure, life goes on as it always does. Only now it is modified. With the current trend of a downward spiral, we can only opt in to hunker down and keep pushing through.
Exhaustion is definitely setting in. Liability, reliability, and trust are all commodities that we hold very dear now. We are counting on our selves and our loved ones to do the very best to keep safe and clean. This adds stress to almost every situation from pumping gas to handling shopping carts. Shared surfaces were once a common ground. Now they are taboo and forbidden.
We are challenged now to occupy the time we have with wholesome, fun, and stress-free activities to fend off the demon of stress. So the question is, what is your therapy?
Writing shares a common ground with art, music, poetry, and any other form of creative outlet. Starting from a blank canvas we can methodically lay down our happiest, most controversial, mischievous, philosophical, intellectual, and childish (to name only a few) feelings.
The hard part is getting to that point where it becomes exciting and keeping it there.
