Category: Emotional Abstraction

• Emotional Alchemy: 3 Simple Techniques to Convert Toxic Emotions, Pain, and Trauma into Creative Offerings

  

  In 2 previous posts (HERE and HERE), I shared quotes that testify to what has been true for me, personally. Our mess can be our message, and the pain we can’t get rid of can become our creative offerings to others. In this post, I want to talk about 3 techniques that have helped me…

  Daniel Fortune

  September 20, 2022

  Emotional Abstraction, Emotional Alchemy, Exposure Therapy, Inversion Thinking

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• QOTD #1: When Things Get Messy… Try This!

  

  When I sit down at the blank page, some times it’s intimidating. Then, there are other times, it’s nothing short of triage because I need a safe place to bleed, and these blank pages become my “paper” towels and wound dressings. On those days, and there have been MANY of them, my mess truly is…

  Daniel Fortune

  September 13, 2022

  Emotional Abstraction, Emotional Alchemy, Poetry, quotes to live by, Techniques, Uncategorized, Writing

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