Why Is Writing About Trauma So Hard?

Many writers who have gone through trauma in their lives reach a point where they feel called to write about what they’ve experienced. But getting started can be extremely difficult. Obviously, it’s hard to revisit past traumatic events, but writers struggle with writing about trauma in other ways too.

Whenever we’ve gone through a healing journey in our lives, we’ve also gone through a huge transformation. The trauma we experienced pushed us to grow and change, and it’s not always easy to write about these changes, or explain them to other people. As a result of our experience with trauma, we may have worked on healing old issues, old ideas about our identity, and old limiting belief systems. The healing journey is never over, but we do get to a place where we realize we’ve experienced so much that could help others.

For sensitive intuitive people, this is when we feel the call to write about our experiences. Maybe we want to write memoir, or maybe we want to write a fictional novel based on our life. Maybe we’re not even sure what we want to write at all. But we know that we want to help people who have gone through the same kind of trauma we have.

So, we feel the call to write, but we also feel like our experience is such a hard thing to write about, and on top of that we doubt ourselves and get scared that we might not have…