BloggingBlogging is a wonderful tool...it helps you organize your thoughts and share those thoughts with others far and wide. Blogging serves as a tool for writing, and an exercise of the fingers as well as the mind.
I subscribe to many blogs and look to add additional ones each day. Most of the blogs I subscribe to are by fellow writers...we are each other’s best audience and I know my writer colleagues are my best support system.
I was just getting started with blogging when I took a break - or I should say a move caused me to take a break - it wasn’t long though before I realized that I felt especially “off” simply because I was NOT blogging. Seems that the move simply took all of my energy - are moves ever easy? And I had none left to blog- and I have thought about this. I think that the most healing thing I could be doing during the move throughout the trauma was to blog and yet I felt so depleted I was unable to. So I have made a promise to myself as part of the taking better care of me policy I have adopted. In times of stress especially when you feel zapped of energy, sit down and write- blog. It heals.
I am slowly but surely finding my rhythm again...helps that my office is finally getting more organized- To me there is nothing quite so discerning as not being able to find something when i reach for it- having things out of their place, I admit does start a bit of a panic in me. But the settling in and re-organization of the new office in the new home is part of the healing process too- because it helps me to write and again writing is healing. And as part of my writing exercises i am glad to have discovered blogging.
Blogging....soul searching or lighthearted ad libs....whatever the topic whatever the purpose- no matter if you write for only your eyes, no matter if you have hundreds of subscribers- blogging , writing is healing…write…above all else write.
Chery is a writer, blogger and workshop leader
www.DocChery.com
Dear Chery,
ReplyDeleteI actually got GOOSEBUMPS when I read this. YES! You are so right about how blogging connects AND heals us. Maybe some wouldn't agree (some who don't blog), but I find this community to be loving, supportive, and too much more to mention.
I really only started regularly blogging about a year ago. Until then it was sporadic, but I found myself looking forward to interacting with bloggers and anticipating comments and reconnections. I love it too and am grateful for all the friendships I've made on line.
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Sharon Lovejoy Writes from Sunflower House and a Little Green Island