Write a letter to someone or something in your past. Start the letter Dear (insert blah blah's name here). You will not send this letter so write all the hurts this person or thing caused you. Don't censor yourself. Tell them how you feel, what you think. Write everything without thinking what the other person will think or feel.
Letters in journaling are good for when you have something to say that you can't say directly, maybe that person is no longer in your life. Letters clarify and validate your feelings and thoughts.
End the letter with goodbye. Saying goodbye will free you from the hold those thoughts and feelings have on you. For example: "Goodbye to wanting and needing and holding on to society's ideal. Goodbye to immaturity. Goodbye to peer pressure. Goodbye to saying yes when I mean no."
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