I gave up in my battle of writers block months ago.. but last night I tried to reason through my struggle:
I’m a big believer that all forms of writing are therapeutic whether it’s confessional prose poetry or a Microsoft office user Manuel.. I think it’s super human to want to be understood and the whole purpose of therapy is better communication with self and writing helps us to communicate and understand by forcing us to be intentional in our communication..
Anyways— because of that, and like anything else in other forms of therapy or in life — you can get badly blocked in the process.
If you want to work on your career or relationships in talk therapy you can only do that if you are willing to face the bigger issues in your life.. similarly, If I want to write a cute poem or even a blog post of any value, I have to first write about the things that are blocking my brain.
I felt like I had so much grief and annoyance writing that had to be done in order to access the rest of my creative brain that it was blocking. Without writing through that block, I was getting so angry and anxious whenever I tried to write and have been completely avoiding the process for months to avoid doing the grief writing necessary to feel open to inspiration again.. anyways, tonight I was finally able to tackle some of the bigger subjects that have been blocking me and I feel much better as a result. Still more to do though
of course .
I haven’t been able to share more personal content on here since I was attacked by a cyber bully who I don’t trust to not exploit me & my writing. But I want to be able to share something with this community.
I really hope this means I’m back ! I’ve missed this place.
xx Monique
Ps. All photos taken this week, by me ! :)