How a composition notebook and pack of pens became the therapy I needed

All writing doesn’t have to be published

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I’m a firm believer in timing. When the time is right a shift will happen. An idea will spark. That special someone will cross your path.

The universe is never wrong.

For years off and on, thoughts and questions lingered of why I am the way I am. Why I did certain things, etc. The opportunity to dig deep hadn’t come. Until I made my son’s barber appointment.

A few days prior a thought hit. Go to the dollar store, get a composition notebook, a pack of pens, and release it all. Any and every situation spanning from childhood to present day that affected me, would be written.

And that’s what I did.

After his appointment, we ventured across the street to the dollar store. Stuck to my $2 budget in getting one composition book, and a ten pack of pens.

After recording my first entry, it painstakingly became the most fulfilling, freeing thing I’d done to date.

Here’s why:

Writing allows for uninterrupted expression

There’s no one on the other end of the conversation to interrupt or adlib during your flow of thought. No fear of bad reception or dropped calls. It’s…