The Power of Writing It Down: A Simple Habit to Unlock Your Brain and Reimagine Your Life

there are three elements your writing needs to cover in order to have the power of change: facts, thoughts, and feelings.

Actions: What did I do to engage or disengage with what I felt?

One of the main reasons people get stuck in their writing is that they forget that writing is inextricably connected to life. In other words, where you feel stuck in your writing, you’re not really stuck in your writing. You’re stuck in your life.

CBT assumes that there is a natural cause-and-effect relationship between our life stories, our thoughts, and our feelings.

It’s easier to treat writing as a low-stakes side hobby, when the reality is that writing requires us to get up-close, personal, and gut-level honest about how we are living our lives.

Writing gives us space to work through our biggest questions.

Trying to tell the truth about someone else is challenging and, in the end, uninteresting. The most interesting writing, the most interesting questions, the most interesting life comes when we’re able to tell the truth about ourselves.

writing practice is life practice.

Facts: What are the facts of what happened?