Love is Free.
In one of the emails from the 30 Day Writing Challenge, Tara-Nicholle says: "if you feel discomfort after reading a prompt, you are about to strike personal growth pay dirt. You might be on the verge of the exact breakthrough you came to this Challenge for." She encourages us to push through when we hit a pain point in our journaling process because that's what will bring us revelation, breakthrough, and relief. I'm glad she wrote it because I needed it yesterday. I sat down to write and hit an emotional land mine. I could immediately feel my body's stress response increasing in intensity every second. I got up and walked around. I distracted myself. I checked my email. Then I remembered what Tara-Nicholle said. So I put down my phone and closed my email and purposed to write through the pain. My eyes welled up with tears. My hands were shaking. My thoughts were incoherent. Memory after memory surfaced and I couldn't make sense of them. And st...