Emptying.

By Stella Orange | Comments Off on Emptying.

I think of our emotional lives like buckets.

Like a bucket gets filled with water, we get filled with ideas, thoughts, beliefs, and feelings.

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Or: sometimes I envision our emotional lives more like digestive systems.

We can’t take another bite unless we chew, swallow, and leach out the nourishment and nutrition from whatever it is that’s happened (and flush the rest down the toilet).

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A writing practice helps speed the process of getting empty again.

Because it’s hard to move through life with a full bucket – or to speak clearly, with a mouth full of food.

It can be as simple as commandeering 15 minutes, grabbing a piece of paper, and making a list of your thoughts, feelings, and ideas.

No rules. No need for it to make sense to anyone but you.

Just you running an inventory of what’s rolling around in your bucket/stomach.

So that you can handle it and get empty again.

WRITING PROMPTS
What’s been going on?
What are you noticing?
What experiences, conversations, or relationships carry an unusually strong emotional charge for you? Why?

Have a great week,

Stella Orange is a copywriter who helps people put their work into words. For eight years, she wrote email campaigns that resulted in more than a million dollars in sales for her clients. In that time, Stella also taught popular marketing writing workshops to business owners on both sides of the Atlantic -- and a few in Australia and New Zealand. In 2017, Stella cofounded a creative and consulting shop offering a complete and slightly unorthodox line of business advising and marketing services. She continues to write copy and advise clients on customer delight, how to resonate with more sophisticated, discerning clientele in your marketing, and just who, exactly, your ideal clients are. Stella is the founder of Show Up And Write, a weekly writing group and writes a letter every two weeks or so (here’s the sign-up). She lives with the Philosopher and their two kiddos in Buffalo, New York, a fifteen-minute bike ride to the Canadian border.

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