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Quotable Articles #103
Embrace Your Story
It’s the only way to rewrite your ending
This is #103 in my Quotable Articles series — not all of them are written and published yet, but I’ve reached this number in planning them out.
I’ve been participating in some therapy lately, working with a therapist who specializes in trauma and PTSD to unpack some of my story and my reactions to it.
It’s been enlightening to say the least.
Don’t worry, you won’t have to sit through a trauma dump here — this isn’t the place for it. There are a select few in whom I will confide: my family, my girlfriend, and my therapist — though not necessarily in that order.
But it’s been an interesting tour through my own story and the ways in which I have or haven’t engaged with it.
It’s been tough at some points, and I’m sure there are more difficult moments ahead, but it’s giving me a chance to do something that I didn’t know I’d needed to do.
Own my story.
I didn’t realize how much ownership I’d given up over my story without meaning to. I had never considered how I had been denying some important parts of my story — and how that ended up defining me in ways that I hadn’t understood.
