As a journaling workshop guinea pig I wrote a couple of unsent letters. The first time I deliberately avoided writing the unsent letter that’s been festering in me for the past 18 months. It may have exorcised some negative feelings and thoughts, some residual anger I’ve been carrying around, but on the other hand I worried that it would just fuck me up. Ended up writing one to someone about something I had not really thought about - something good, positive. It functioned as a realization and left me feeling unexpectedly buoyed.
I guess like any journaling method, you may or may not be ready and/or in the right frame of mind to engage with something like "the unsent letter". You can't force it. But if the time is right, it can be very powerful.
Haha, that's funny... Anne Kadet of Café Anne said the same thing when I mentioned my full name on my last Feed the Monster post. I really wasn't trying to hide it... I can't believe I hadn't mentioned it before!
As a journaling workshop guinea pig I wrote a couple of unsent letters. The first time I deliberately avoided writing the unsent letter that’s been festering in me for the past 18 months. It may have exorcised some negative feelings and thoughts, some residual anger I’ve been carrying around, but on the other hand I worried that it would just fuck me up. Ended up writing one to someone about something I had not really thought about - something good, positive. It functioned as a realization and left me feeling unexpectedly buoyed.
I guess like any journaling method, you may or may not be ready and/or in the right frame of mind to engage with something like "the unsent letter". You can't force it. But if the time is right, it can be very powerful.
Beautiful! I love letters, sent and unsent! And I *wondered* what B.A. stood for!
Haha, that's funny... Anne Kadet of Café Anne said the same thing when I mentioned my full name on my last Feed the Monster post. I really wasn't trying to hide it... I can't believe I hadn't mentioned it before!
And thank you.