Why I Write
- lissawhiteman
- Jul 15, 2025
- 3 min read
Updated: Jul 28, 2025
Do you know what I truly love about writing?
It’s the way something deep within your being can pour out through your fingertips and shape itself into letters, into rhythm, into soul music on the page. It becomes something alive something real.
It’s your truth, in that moment, made visible.
For me, the best writing often comes from tiny sparks triggers, nudges, things I see or feel that hit just right. I don’t write for approval. I write because something inside needs to move. But if my words happen to reach someone else, if they’re stirred by what I’ve said and feel moved to share it with me?
Fu$k I’m so grateful. On so many layers. Grateful deep in my bones.
But also? It's what writing gives me that keeps me coming back. That final sentence, that last full stop it’s like an exhale from the depths of my soul.
A release.
Whether it’s joy, rage, grief, wild love, or pure feisty fire, I feel complete once the words are out.
I don’t shy away from debate either. I’m a Scorpio with a shit load of Aries in my chart. I love a good, healthy, respectful conversation. But if someone starts spouting spiritual bypassing fluff, throwing feelings and "downloads" over facts? You better believe I turn into a dog with a bone. It fires me up, drives me deeper into the research, the learning, the truth beneath the noise.
But here’s the thing… what is truth, really?
We assume a lot.
We assume what our ancestors did.
We piece together stories passed down through generations, but even those stories have been layered with beliefs, feelings, filters. That’s the human way we add meaning, and meaning changes things.
So maybe we’re all just storytellers, trying to make sense of the world through our own lens.
And in this age of screaming voices and soundbite wisdom, why do I write?
Because it brings me bliss. Because it makes my heart soar.
When I’m in full channel, tip-tapping away at the keys, I feel Source energy pulsing through me. There’s a love there a deep, creative pulse that’s honestly one of the most expansive things I’ve ever known. Sometimes I don’t even fully understand what’s coming out.
I wish I could speak the way I write fluid and fierce and full of grace.
But this is how it comes. Through my hands. Through the pen. Through the screen. And I will always honour that.
I write to release.
To reflect.
To witness what lives inside me.
I write from my own lived experience, my own beliefs, observations, and yes, my spicy spidey senses that call bullshit when it’s due. But never from hierarchy. Never from a pedestal.
I don’t think my writing is better than anyone else’s. I often see it as ramblings from a wild witch who views the world a little differently. And honestly? That’s exactly how I like it.
I write because it’s mine. Because it’s me. And that’s enough.
So I’ll keep writing. Because I love it. Because it lights me up. Because it connects me to the earth, to the unseen, to something far greater than myself.
And maybe just maybe something I write will land in your bones too.
Maybe one word, one sentence, one spark will help you believe in your voice.
In your magic.
In your worth to share what’s inside you.
And if that happens?
That’s the most sacred kind of alchemy I know.

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