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Self-Disovery and Growth

The Healing Power of Tears

How giving myself the permission to cry a good cry helped me process unspeakable pain and lifted me out of deep depression

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Lily Pond
Sep 10, 2024
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This essay was originally posted on October 23, 2023 and it’s now lifted from behind the paywall as part of the month-long collaboration with 12 other Substack writers who contribute to Victoria @Carer Mentor: Empathy & Inspiration’s September anthology on crying. Some details have been updated, namely, my partner became my ex-partner.

Tomorrow, I pass the baton to Anna De La Cruz to carry on the challenge to d…

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