Do we need to struggle with emotions?

Are our feelings making life tougher than it actually is?

Derrick Douglas
Nov 1 · 12 min read
Photo by Rúben Marques on Unsplash

I had become very proud of my writing habit. I’d fallen off the wagon for a while and forcing myself to reconnect to the joy it brings me has been, in itself, a struggle. I’ve kept my thoughts locked up in fear of what might be revealed to me in black and white; avoiding the work of trying to understand…

Derrick Douglas

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Explorer of conundrums and amateur self-therapist

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