I’ve always recommended to people that when struggling or reckoning with big ideas, troubling or confusing emotions, getting them out of your head and onto paper can help.
It helps us elucidate the myriad thoughts that swirl about our minds and through the (often) more linear process of writing, we can work through and make sense of our messy minds. We can also look more objectively at our thoughts and ideas with a new perspective, as an outsider, and evaluate them anew.
Check out this podcast episode for further exploration of this idea.