Writing As Self Care

Writing can be a powerful form of self-care. Whether it’s pouring your heart into a journal or writing a letter to your younger self, these practices help us process emotions, gain clarity, and build self-compassion. For many of us navigating mental health challenges, putting feelings into words can create a sense of relief and control. I often wrote to myself as an adult to help heal the wounded child within which allowed me to understand my thoughts and put them in a place where I could heal from :-

“Dear younger me, it’s ok to struggle”

Dear younger me,

I wish I could sit beside you right now and give you a hug. I wish I could whisper in your ear that despite it all you’re going to turn out ok and in spite of what happened you’ll go on to use your experiences as a superpower to help others through really tough times!

I want you to know that in spite of your anxiety, confusion, fear and numbness, you will come through the other side. It won’t be an easy journey, but you WILL come through and thrive.

I need to tell you how what happened to you was not your fault!! Read that again slowly….let it sink in….yes that’s right, it was never your fault. I know you are carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders, never feeling like enough, always feeling insignificant in spite of trying your best in all you do, never in the right, always in the wrong.

You were heavily let down; you were never celebrated and were denied being yourself.

You will grow up, however, to be unapologetically you, trust me when I say this is the most beautiful yet liberating thing….ever!!

You will make some poor life choices, you still have a way to go but honestly by building yourself up and working on you, will create some amazing opportunities and yes I know that is hard to believe but it is true.

I want you to know ultimately that you are enough, you always have been in spite of being repeatedly told the opposite.

Remember….you are not broken; you’re wounded and wounds can and will heal!!