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When creative groups blur the line between art and therapy

My writing group has been meeting for two years and we've gotten close as friends, but lately the feedback sessions feel more like therapy sessions and I'm not sure if that's good or bad — we're all getting more vulnerable but also less focused on the actual writing.

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Intimacy has deepened the work but also changed its nature in ways that no one has explicitly chosen.

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