Healing or Avoiding?: The Pros and Cons of Writing About Personal Trauma

My confessional writing isn’t as bold as you might believe.

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Years ago, I published my first #MeToo story on social media. I was very deliberate about how I shared this essay with a majority of the people I knew. Instead of sending a link to my friends and family, or even letting them know that I was…