Ways to Write About the Past in a Healthier Way

Christine Arata
2 min readMar 3, 2022
Image Credit: Natasa Ivancev / Pond5

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.” ― Anais Nin

For years, I have been talking about memoirs, whether it be when I was helping others write theirs or when I wrote my own. Simultaneously, I had to convince people that it’s okay to reminisce about their childhoods, teen years, former friends, relatives, hometowns and whatever else they hold dear in their…

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