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When survival writing becomes family confrontation

My daughter found the journal I kept during her difficult teenage years and now she wants to discuss every entry but I wrote those words to survive her, not to share them.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Words written to preserve the self can wound the very people we were trying to love through difficulty.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The letters and journals you leave?”

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