What I've Learned From (Nearly) a Decade of Writing About Mental Health and Relationships

Life looks a lot different when you're actually living it.

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Being a writer is a weird and wonderful thing. You spend so much of your life trying to encapsulate small experiences and translate them for your readers. For me, I’ve spent nearly a decade doing this in the mental health and relationship spaces. I’ve shared my stories, my research, and the knowledge I’ve gathered from more than thirty-five years of a pretty chaotic life. It’s helped some, it’s enlightened others, and that’s pretty good going for a nobody writer from small-town nowhere.

What I’m most grateful for in all that time of writing though, is not so much my ability to help others. Quite selfishly it’s the life-changing lessons I’ve been able to take for myself along the way. If it sounds cliche, trust me, I know. Still, some cliches are true. Writing about mental health and relationships will change you from the inside out, especially when you do for it close enough to a decade.

What I’ve learned from (nearly) a decade of writing about mental health and relationships.