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May 24, 2023Liked by Susannah Rigg

I am so on again off again with journaling and with my morning pages. I do have a couple of notebooks filled, however, and the idea of burning them feels liberating!

Also, On Writing by Stephen King. We’ve all read it, but there’s something special about hearing him read it. Different things hit home and sink in. Not a podcast, but such a good listen!

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I think you should write a eulogy to your journals! I have debated this for a decade and even after mining each one thoroughly and transforming workable nuggets into stories or sentences or paragraphs or poems, cannot bear to let the bound pages go. So they sit in my attic, along with my mother’s and grandmother’s collections, waiting to be discovered by future archaeologists for I am the last of the family line.

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I have two FOOTLOCKERS full of diaries and journals from the time I was nine. I can’t bear the thought of family reading and mocking them...or finding out I wrote about processing their bad behavior. But I hold them bc I have intentions of memoire writing from them...and of psychologically assimilating my life’s events a bit better with their perusal.

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May 25, 2023Liked by Susannah Rigg

I read this yesterday and still thinking about it today! I've been doing Morning Pages for nearly 3 years now and have so many of the same thoughts as others in this thread. I do think about how one day it might be liberating to burn them, but for now they are a reminder of how far I've come from that first day. Almost a touchstone for what I've come through since beginning.

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I love this. I have decided, that between now and when I leave on my next big trip, I am going to use my Digital Sabbath Sundays to slowly strip away my own pages. That energy is weighing me down as you said.

It also got me thinking about how a few months ago I told my roommate "If anything happens to me, make sure Rhiannon [my best friend] gets my journals. Don't let my Mum get them. Rhiannon will know what do". Instead of placing that burden on Rhiannon, I know I can release us all, and thank the words in the process.

It's got me thinking also about how I could, once feeling light again, do this daily or weekly to keep on top if things, but also keep on top of the gratitude and release practice. I think I am going to save myself one box in storage or one extra suitcase with all this release.

Thank you, Susannah for sharing! 🧡🧡🧡

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May 24, 2023Liked by Susannah Rigg

I am really sentimental about keeping my morning pages journals: even though I could probably do without them, I like the idea of having a track record of my feelings and thoughts through time that I can reread. When I moved house, I took my writing in suitcases rather in the moving truck as these are my most precious belongings!

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Weirdly, at the weekend, I found a notebook that appeared from who knows where and it is full of short stories/thoughts from 2012 and 2013. I flicked through with the intention of throwing it away once I was done, but it has somehow made it's way into a corner of my room for 'safekeeping'. I'm terrible with throwing things away even though I hold no use for them anymore!

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