{"id":7130,"date":"2020-03-14T18:29:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T17:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smama.blog\/osecanja-u-reci\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T15:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T14:19:38","slug":"putting-feelings-into-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smama.blog\/en\/putting-feelings-into-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting Feelings Into Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/smama.blog\/en\/journaling\/\">Writing is healing.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Through writing, thoughts become tangible and the soul grows lighter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But how do you write about something that hurts so much?<\/p>\n<p>Then the pain becomes real and tangible too, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p>How do you write about feelings without being melodramatic?<\/p>\n<p>How do you say everything that is on your soul without being labelled a weakling or a coward?<\/p>\n<p>How do you strip yourself bare with words and lift the burden of suppressed feelings from your shoulders, and still stay dressed?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mima_smama\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/smama.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/osecanja-u-reci.jpg\" alt=\"An open book in the foreground, with a person lying in bed under the covers in the background\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In search of answers to all these and many other questions, I leave them here, before your eyes and mine. Who knows, maybe one day we will find the answers.<\/p>\n<p>Until then. Silence. Emptiness. <a href=\"https:\/\/smama.blog\/en\/family-memories-passing-down-traditions\/\">Sadness<\/a>. Helplessness and a great deal of anger that cannot be put into words.<\/p>\n<p>Warmly,<\/p>\n<p><em>S-Mama<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing is healing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3862],"tags":[3115,3114,3116,2935,3113],"class_list":["post-7130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marginalia","tag-emotional-writing","tag-expressing-emotions","tag-pain-and-words","tag-self-reflection","tag-writing-as-therapy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Putting Feelings Into Words: Writing as Therapy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Writing as therapy heals, but how do you write about pain without being melodramatic? 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