Writing about yourself and your life—even just brief notes!—is a huge privilege, and that writing can be incredibly liberating. Writing in a diary is, at its core, a declaration that your voice matters. If you’re one of the many people who is told the opposite by society—told that you should be quieter, that expressing your own needs makes you selfish or “crazy,” that you mostly exist to take care of other people—then choosing to speak your truth can be a powerful act. It’s a way of saying, “I’m more than a supporting character in someone else’s narrative; I am the hero of this story, and what
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