How Blogging Boosted My Resilience to Better Face Life’s Challenges

How writing led me to a more positive head space

Andre Begin
The Writing Cooperative
4 min readMay 3, 2024

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The ducks at a local park, highlighting the idea of resilience, “like water on a duck’s back”
The ducks at a local park, highlighting the idea of resilience, “like water on a duck’s back” (photo by author)

When I first started blogging, the idea was to give myself a break from my quarter-century public sector career where writing was functional and purpose-driven. My blog was intended to be a space to sharpen my creative writing skills in preparation for the freelance…

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Writer, blogger, humourist and screenwriter, sharing stories about writing, running, rural life, playing butler to a high-maintenance cat and more.