Issue 50: How writing my book has felt LIKE therapy
And how a BIG. IMPORTANT. PROJECT can do the same for you
Last week, I read an interview* on Substack in which the interviewee, a novelist, said - I don’t go to therapy, I write books. The comment was meant as a joke, I think, but I didn’t find it funny. To me, it felt truthful. It also made me realized that since I went ham on my book back in August of 2023, I have not felt like I needed to see my therapist.
Here’s what I think is going on.
First of all - OF COURSE - I don’t actually believe that writing a book is therapy. Therapy is therapy. Writing is writing. But in my particular case, there would be no book without therapy and the book has felt like a continuous exploration of things learned in therapy.
When I see my therapist, every time, without exception, she asks me What brings you here today? And when I first started seeing her, I remember feeling kind of taken aback. Does she not remember me? I cried my eyes out last time I was here. But then I realized that…
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