Burning Letters: The Therapy of Letter Writing and Letting Go

Collage of photographs by Marcus Lofvenberg and Alvaro Serrano

Through writing letters — and burning them — we can release the pain of old wounds and stale dreams

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There is so much weight and heaviness we carry with us on a daily basis — the weight of past relationships, betrayals, and pain inflicted by others. The process of letting it all go, moving forward, and healing old wounds isn’t an easy one, but it is available to us all.

I can speak from experience when I say that the weight for leaving a 10-year marriage that I had worked