"The Messy, Unfiltered Truth About How Writing Saved Me (The Am…

Let’s talk about rock bottom. Not the poetic, "I-saw-the-light" kind—the real, ugly version. The kind where you’re lying on the floor of your empty apartment at 3 AM, wondering if anyone would notice if you disappeared for a week.

That was me in 2018. Freshly divorced. A dad who barely recognized himself in the mirror. And yeah, I was one of those guys who’d rather choke on his own silence than admit he needed help.

The Notebook That Became My Shrink I started writing because screaming into a pillow felt undignified. My journal was a graveyard of half-formed thoughts:

No eloquence. No epiphanies. Just proof I was still alive.

The Turning Point That Wasn’t Dramatic There’s something powerful about writing through pain. It forces you to be honest — sometimes brutally so. But in that rawness, something beautiful emerged.

One Tuesday, I wrote about the smell of my ex’s perfume lingering on an old scarf. For the first time, I didn’t just vomit emotions—I described them. The way the scent mixed with coffee grounds in the trash. How the fabric still held a crease from where she’d tied it.

That’s when I realized: writing wasn’t just my painkiller. It was my translator.

From Cringe to Career (Sort Of) Eventually, I showed someone a piece. My hands shook like I’d handed them a loaded gun. Their reaction? "Damn. You made me feel my own divorce."

Turns out, real pain is a universal language.

Now I help businesses sound human—because Fortune 500 companies still cry in elevators. They just call it "brand vulnerability."

If You’re Reading This Your pain is your leverage. Not the Instagrammable, TED Talk version. The ugly, unshareable stuff.

Write it. Whisper it. Carve it into your desk with a key. Just don’t sterilize it.

The world doesn’t need more polished lies. It needs your uncomfortable truth.

(And if you ever want to talk no corporate BS, just two humans—reply with 🖕. I’ll know what it means.