Writing workout for Anxiety; Writers’ Workshop
Set a timer to 15 minutes & write
1) Visualize anxiety as a person, give them a shape, form, gender identity, age, body type, background information, facial features, a complete mental image of anxiety.
2) Write a letter to Anxiety, breaking up with it. Recall an early memory with it, a time it helped you, describe an experience where it hurt you, how does it make you a better person? How does it make you worse? Tell Anxiety why you are leaving. What do you wish for it? What do you wish for you?
Example:
Anxiety,
You ever shifting shooting star into a meteor woman, you are the right amount of thin and right amount of venom, you are my ex with the giving love and toxicity in the same dosage, you are the wisdom of the old age wrapped in young skin, flawless skin, I have more pimples than you have imperfections, but my pimples can be popped, your venom only spewed, you are out of my league,
I am too unloved not love you back,
half the reason I wanted you is because you lusted after me, you are all my ex-lovers, or people I’ve loved, or people I’ve loved who did not love me back, other days, you are my mother, panicked, you play victim when I tell you I need space and play broken when I leave, you are Xanax pills and placebo effects, you are my fuel, some days, I run away from you some days and find myself somewhere kinder, other days you catch up too quickly, you are an Olympic-runner-stalker, I can’t seem to get a restraining order, you have wasta* in every court and you have the charisma to get out of every cell, and I have nothing but words, some say words can hurt like guns, but I cannot bring myself to shoot you, you have the faces of everyone I’ve ever loved, of everyone I love, now, you have the hands of everyone who ever held my shrieking body after you left me with a panic
*Wasta: is nepotism which is not exclusive for family.
The writing workout has been developed and written by Dana Seif, the founder of The Poetry Passport. You can find her on Instagram here.
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