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    Healing With a Pen: Rebuilding an Imploded Life Through Writing a Book

    by Kathryn Taylor Oct 17, 2018 3 minutes
    Healing through Writing a Book, by Kathryn Taylor; photograph of hand holding ben by Rawpixel

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    When her life was turned upside down, the author learns to rebuild her life and sense of self by channeling her story into a book

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    I embarked on my writing journey quite by accident. Since then, it has been a long and arduous adventure. Indeed, it is the most difficult undertaking I have experienced since childbirth. And while I had always dreamed of writing, and regularly journaled, I would have readily avoided the circumstances which led me down this path.

    I had been divorced from my first husband for thirteen years. I had successfully raised two beautiful and talented daughters and had reached the

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