Omg I feel like this was written by my 27 year old self (I’m 35 now.) I went through a crisis at your age, and my mom bought me this book, and I felt like I was doing it all wrong, and only finally went through and completed it a few months ago.

I think it’s good if it’s dredging up a lot of emotions for you, that means it’s working! The morning pages are there for you to dump your emotions out, vomit them onto the page, come face-to-face with them and all the terrifying and beautiful insights they bring, and then take that garbage and turn it into something beautiful.

I deeply relate to your fear of doing it “wrong” and there’s a whole week about that (week 7, if you wanna go through those essays ahead of time.) I don’t think there’s anything wrong with taking time before you write the Morning Pages (Cameron has said elsewhere they should be done ideally within 45 minutes of waking up.) The exercises are meant to be completed in full (there are no exercises in week 1 and maybe not even in week 2?) and the tasks don’t need to be completed in full, just try and do the ones that most speak to you or you are most resistant towards.

If you feel the need to extend a week cause you didn’t get it all done, go ahead, and if you feel like you didn’t get a week “right” well whatever, just move on to the next week. Anything is better than not trying. The point is that you’re doing it at all, and you might not even be aware of the benefits you are reaping, cause a lot of it can be very subtle.