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When writing becomes performative healing

My therapist says I should write about my childhood trauma but every time I try I feel like I am performing grief instead of processing it

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The therapeutic mandate to write can corrupt the authentic process of working through difficult material.

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