Embracing Your Range: Complex Story, Layered Voice

By Dorian Fox

I sometimes catch myself compartmentalizing emotions in my mind, as if each feeling—elation, despair, hope—lives in its own apartment, ordering in from GrubHub every night and never talking to its neighbors. But of course, our emotional lives are messier than that; our interior states a chorus of many notes and tones. And as we write about our lives, we bring new emotional insights to past experiences, adding even more layers of feeling to the mix.

It’s a lot to wrap our h...