Why You Should Write If You’re Emotionally Distraught

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How writing has allowed me to become more emotionally intelligent and controlled.

I tell this story all the time on Medium.

How I was all depressed, angry, and had low self-esteem throughout 2018 and 2019.

I always talk about how 2018 and 2019 were the worst years of my life.

I had no friends and I was trying to escape people every day. I couldn’t meet any goals that I wanted to meet and I wasn’t living up to anyone’s expectations.

I always talk about how I started self-reflecting and found out about what I really wanted to do and who I wanted to be.

And then suddenly after self-reflecting, I started rapidly improving my work and became more emotionally confident.

Yesterday, I was reading Rising Strong by Brené Brown.

I had already read a quarter of the book a few months ago during the self-reflection time.

Some of the messages were really powerful and pushed me to do lots of things outside my comfort zone, for example, get vulnerable and publish my stuff on Medium and start linking my stuff to my personal social media.

Last night, I read about the “shitty first draft (SFD)” and the concept of rumbling with your emotions.