Therapy At Its Finest

There's something entirely cleansing about a bonfire. It's like starting over. The smell combined with the dark combined with the look of it all, it really feels like you're burning something completely out and building it new. Friday night I had a mini bonfire with a few of my friends. It began as a common girls' night while we roasted s'mores, but it turned into something spectacular.

We didn't officially begin our fire or even roasting marshmallows until at least midnight. There is this cage thing on my back deck that you can start a fire in...anyway, that's what we used. And we took lawn chairs and crowded them around it and we let the fire burn for a minute and then we whipped out our skewers and bag of marshmallows and our six Hershey's bars and our yummy little box of graham crackers and set to work. We were all incredibly happy and satisfied with our s'mores and talking like you know girls do, and my friend had brought over some stuff she wanted to burn from a while back because she wanted to get rid of it and so we read them out loud and tossed them in one by one and let them burn.

This is what got us all started on the events of the night. We all decided that we would write letters to people from our past who had harmed us or wronged us in some way and we read them out loud in front of each other and burned them. It was marvelous because it was like we really made peace with some of the things we had been angrily or hostilely carrying with us and we let it go. It burned away with the paper. We really started over Friday night and we dealt with some things that we had been holding back and holding onto. We cleansed ourselves of negative experiences and we all came out better for it.

Bottom line: the s'mores were delicious, the fire was therapeutic, and the friends made it that much more fun. I suggest you try it because you won't realize how much you need it until you do it.

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xoxo, Lexie