Authenticity, creativity and stepping into your power

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When I was eighteen, I wrote a play about falling in love, being afraid and not knowing what to say. I wrote it late at night after walking home from my first serious boyfriend’s house. I wrote it to make sense of what I was feeling.

A month or so later, with no other material to turn in for my Grade 12 playwriting class, I submitted the play. As part of the assignment…