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When others want to sanitize your authentic experience

My writing group wants me to make my divorce poems more hopeful but that feels like lying about what actually happened to me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The pressure to transform pain into inspiration is asking for premature closure on a process that needs to be witnessed in its raw state.

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