Goodbye To What's Living Rent-Free In My Mind
One of the things that I wanted to do as part of my new year’s resolution is to be kinder to myself, and that includes doing something difficult: Letting go of the things and people who live rent-free in my brain and no longer letting the trauma or mental anguish they caused me to fester. Is it a good idea to post all of this online for who knows how many people to read? To run the risk of sounding an overly-sensitive whiner complaining about every little thing that’s happened to me over the years? I don’t know. I do know that, as a writer, my words are my most powerful resource in aiding my own mental health recovery. I’m scared to share all of this, but even sitting down to write this has lifted a weight from my shoulders that has rested there for decades. I know that a fair amount of these things I won’t actually be letting go of because they’ve formed me for better or worse, but I’m ready to let go of all of the emotions they’ve held over me for years and up to decades. I’ll onl