“Don’t Limit Your Audience”

My therapist advised me

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My therapist knows I’m writing on Medium. I’ve told him about it. I described how I had stumbled across the site, and eventually decided to plunk down the fifty bucks for the year’s membership.

A little while ago I read a couple pieces aloud to him. Hey, I’ve been writing about my healing journey here, and that’s what I pay him for, so I figured he might as well…

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