These past couple of months have been some of the hardest, but most reflective times of my life as a...

These past couple of months have been some of the hardest, but most reflective times of my life as a writer. I’ve struggled so much with the notion that it was “bad” for me not to be writing. It wasn’t until a recent session with my therapist that I started to see (and believe) that it wasn’t “bad”, but perhaps a good thing for me. I need to be gentle with myself and not hold myself to these imagined expectations. I also need to stop assigning judgments to them. It has been very tough, but also rewarding. The process of being gentle has allowed me time to not only decompress, but I think it is helping me reflect on what I’ve accomplished and what I want to do next. I’m not back to writing yet, but ideas are percolating. The most important thing though is that it is okay. It will happen and when it does, I will be ready for it.