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Writing is Cathartic
& the greatest tool for self healing
This month I am behind on my blogging. I’m in overwhelm again, a state I’ve quite frankly gotten used to thriving in, but learning to rest, be permissive with myself, and not make personal deadlines and commitments when I’m not feeling it is also a act of self love; isn’t it? Lets unpack this. I know writing for me is cathartic, a form of release, that I will almost most definitely feel a sense of peace, solidarity and wholeness once the feelings stuffed down inside of me have been brought to life through the thoughts in my brain, traveling down my neural pathways to the keys on my keyboard, ending up on the screen in front of me, being read by whoever finds this to be a worthy of their time. And so the act of not showing up for myself, of not writing, because I may or may not miss a deadline (self imposed) is actually not permissive, freeing, and kind, it is yet again self abandonment. Which is why I’m here, doing it, after the deadline. Because its not so much the deadline that matters, its the simple act of beginning again. In every area of our life. Knowing that continually showing up, whether, we’re late or not, is better than not doing it at all. Most often people know what works for them, they just need reminders. They need to be asked; what has worked for you in the past? Mostly its the shame they’re grappling with, the analysis paralysis, the trauma that has…
