Sage advice. It seems when we sit to write, we give focus and take control rather than continue to allow these painful memories to insert themselves randomly during other activities where they distract and compound the trauma. Giving them attention and acknowledging them can be difficult, but I agree that it's an important step into gaining victory through the pain they caused. Whether we burn them, share them, or lock them away for future reevaluation, they become under our control to some degree where we have captured them and can then study or destroy them as we choose to come out the other side with a strength that we wouldn't have had if they'd continued to just haunt us during our vulnerable moments. Wonderful truth and much appreciated.