Does Your Narrative Serve Your Audience?

Cathartic cleanse vs. contagious rage dump.

Jessica Ball
Nov 8 · 3 min read
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There’s a fine line between using our audience to vent solely for our own good and sharing our pain to serve others.

Every time someone reads our words, we are quite literally in their heads.

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Jessica Ball

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City mouse in a country house, training the trauma out of the family tree. Sharing 20 years of intentional observation with my kids and the eternally curious.

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