In this article, the author describes how her sensitive receptivity to the projections of others leaves her vulnerable to emotional resonances that are difficult to process. While supervision helps, writing facilitates the integration and metabolization of intense emotional experience in a different, more stabilizing way. The author reflects on an experience-near example of the writing that grounds her, demonstrating how the timelessness of primary process is transformed. Writing structures the passage of time and creates a relationship between the feeling self, the writing self, and readers.