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Prajna O'Hara's avatar

I love this. “Writing is like firing a nail gun into the center of a vanity mirror.” I signed up. I've received many confessions throughout this life. It's a sacred act to listen, receive, and hold stories sacred. Thank you, Grant.

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Melissa Grace's avatar

years ago I started writing about a traumatic event I'd barely ever spoken of - I compared it to jumping into a pool filled with shards of glass. I had to stop at that time. now decades later I can speak and write of it with much more ease.

I've healed in ways getting that awful secret out. and I know the story I've told to the few I've told it to say it helps them feel safer speaking their secrets. we are told on one side of the river to be open, to share. then on the other side we're told that not everything needs to be out there. I suppose it's up to each of us where we float along between those two.

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