No, you severed the flower head. Continue the metaphorical story . . . Write a symbolic account . The end of the journey is the end of your story. Stand Back Put a distance between yourself and your writing.
Distance means time as well as space.
When you walk away from it, you remember what else you could have written. You can go back to it with a freshness that would have eluded you if you'd stuck at it for too long. The funny thing is, if the writing is your therapy, then standing back means you'll bound into a fresh mind-set after every spurt of work. Give your experiences shape One of the hardest things about life is making sense of it as you go along. Writing about it, whether in disguise or as a plain diary or journal, will show you some truths about yourself.