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Writing To Heal
An idea for release and generating catharsis.
Almost 13 years ago, I began to blog weekly. The exercise originated as my first New Year’s Action. To write more frequently — writing being a longtime love — I chose a day to write every week.
My Pathwalking blog was the result of this. It will be 13 years since I’ve been writing these at the start of 2025. While not my first love — that being fiction, specifically sci-fi and fantasy — writing about seeking my path in life has been deeply empowering, hugely healing, and helped me find focus and more intention in my life.
This would evolve into blogging on different topics 3–6 days a week. In time, this led me back to my passion, and since 2014 I’ve published 14 novels (and will add 2 more before the end of 2024).
Over the years I’ve found that writing brings me peace and joy. Catharsis. If you’re not familiar with this, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, catharsis is:
1a: purification or purgation of the emotions (such as pity and fear) primarily through art 1b: a purification or purgation that brings about spiritual renewal or release from tension 2: elimination of a complex by bringing it to consciousness and affording it expression
