3 Writing Practices to Untangle and Illuminate Your Life By Patrice Vecchione

[Manuel Tavares]

3 Writing Practices to Untangle and Illuminate Your Life
By Patrice Vecchione
https://rayviolet.blogspot.com/2022/07/3-writing-practices-to-untangle-and.html

Try writing new or resequenced versions of past events. Doing so can untangle sticky patterns and open your life to joy.

Patrice Vecchione is an author, poet, and writing teacher who’s been helping people speak their truths for over 40 years. She sees writing as a process of having a conversation with ourselves that’s different from what’s possible through thinking alone.

“Once you get words onto the page, the paper holds them for you, freeing you to think and feel your way into what else there is to consider,” she says. “The words that arrive are almost always surprising. Rarely could we have predicted them.”

Vecchione offers three powerful techniques to help us look more deeply at ourselves, view our stories with more clarity, and figure out how we truly feel and think. But, she cautions, “For writing to be transformative, we need to write honestly, which means feeling free to be our true selves on the page, allowing what we most need to say to come forward as it will. We must not let ourselves get hijacked by judgments or self-doubt. This means writing bravely and with compassion. Perfection is not the goal.”...+
https://rayviolet.blogspot.com/2022/07/3-writing-practices-to-untangle-and.html