The Power of Writing It Down: A Simple Habit to Unlock Your Brain and Reimagine Your Life

Trying to tell the truth about someone else is challenging and, in the end, uninteresting. The most interesting writing, the most interesting questions, the most interesting life comes when we’re able to tell the truth about ourselves.

writing puts us in touch with our human experience, which might make us more aware of the pain. Not less.

Interesting questions make for interesting stories, interesting writing, and interesting lives.

Writing is a beautiful and tender invitation to stay with the story. To reimagine the ending. To play a role in shaping it.

Result: What was the outcome of my chosen action?

writing is diagnostic.

The act of focusing our attention on a single thing (or at least attempting to do so) reveals to us how distracted we’ve been all along.

The point of this step in the process is to make space in your physical environment, on your calendar, and then just sit and see what the landscape of your interior world looks like.

Writing is not a cure-all. But it does invite us to reconnect with our memory, to make meaning of our unique experience and sometimes to speak the truth we didn’t feel we could speak anywhere else.