"Nev er be ashamed of a scar. It simply means you were stronger than whatever tried to hurt you." Unknown It has been almost three years since I started writing, suggested by my therapist, as a great way to get the immortal hamster off the squealy infinity wheel of anxiety. Writing helps take the looping internal dialogue of negative self talk and stretch it out into a linear format, where it has a beginning and an end. It's a bit like taking a pencil and jamming it into the noisy hamster wheel. Ka-POW.... Which would probably send the hamster flying, or at least give him a tiny concussion, so I wouldn't really do that... but you get the idea. At one point, the squeaky wheel was accompanied by a very loud clock, keeping time to the squealing wheel.... TICK -TOCK-TICK-TOCK. SQUEAK...SQUEAK... Not only were there a million things to do, a million things to fix, there was a countdown clock. Figure it out. TICK...