https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2022/08/writing-vocation-michael-de-sapio.html
Like prayer and meditation, writing helps make sense of things, to cut through the clutter of life, to find mental clarity and order—both for the writer himself and in turn for the readers. The act of writing helps the writer to know himself and the reader in turn to know himself, to know that he is not alone. Writing can thus be curative or tonic, a source of healing and wonderment for all concerned