Questions on Compassionate Friends & Hospice grief counseling

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14. Yaaaaay!

I'm so glad you felt resonance with writing!!!

Have you ever read Dr. James Pennebaker's work on journaling?

There is a valuable physical process thatt occurs when we put pen to paper which is not realized on a keyboard! Not to discourage you from writing on computer. I apologize, I've forgotten which part of brain benefits. (Blush)

Cool you are both musicians! What do you play? Could you do zoom performances?

Could you jam together in your home?

Not much of a social network here, either. Tbh, covid isolation is only slightly different than the norm for me. I live in a burb of Memphis, where violent crime is exceptionally high.

Smart people take an extra person - even to the grocery store! - just to babysit car from vandalism. I'm neither paranoid nor delusional. Just a fact of life here, sadly. (I had no idea when I moved here!)

This is just not normal in any sense... but here we are.

Regarding your negotiations with ocd... what would happen if you set journals / paper & pens on a table, closed your eyes, asked hubby to mix them up & you chose by feel, spontaneously, fully committed to write with & on what you chose by feel? Maybe a way to help you work through that issue?

Hugs to you, Dark!