​Morning pages, not mourning pages.

I started the morning pages a couple of decades ago, when I was a kid.🤓. Writing those three pages each morning without editing or judgment became pre-editing for me. My first year, it was disconcerting to notice all the complaining I did. Everything was a pebble in my shoe. I stopped the “mourning” and started to look to focus on gratitude, goals, questions about certain issues and I saw a significant impact on my mood. It also helps to avoid the news. Doom scrolling begets doom scrawlings (scrawls).