We've gotta embrace the baby steps and give ourselves grace when our narratives about our abilities falter! I completely understand, though.
Something just clicked this week! I think a BIG thing that's helped is having a handful of people cheering me on here on Substack. Receiving feedback feedback, praise, and even just engagement makes …
We've gotta embrace the baby steps and give ourselves grace when our narratives about our abilities falter! I completely understand, though.
Something just clicked this week! I think a BIG thing that's helped is having a handful of people cheering me on here on Substack. Receiving feedback feedback, praise, and even just engagement makes me SO excited!
And I also got two tips! That always makes me gasp and motivates me quite a bit haha.
But even with those things, it took a minute to feel as good as I do (right now, let's cross our fingers it's a more permanent stay!) but I think what also has been helping is just being in an environment (in real life) where I can embrace it.
I took a 2-week break cause I needed to experience life to have fodder to write, and to heal a bit more (not that I can check it off a list, but stepping back was even a first healing step ya know?). It really helped and made a flood of new pieces come to me!
Then just not having to caregive anymore gives me time (which I've been having), but the difference I think is the energy around it all.
I think I'm gonna write about it, but there were so many times where I felt I fought for my right to write, and even eventually was fighting myself. So it was like an epiphany! I am FREE! Life is too short to be scared and create fake rules anymore!
This took MONTHS to embrace this, but I'm here right now!
I'd be honored! Haha I love that you love that! I like, *noticed* that I was making up all these rules that were stopping me and I had to break that mindset and... said rules lol!
Yes! I always forget, but I've heard that it's your subconcious trying to protect you from the unknown. You *consciously* wanna go after something, but the outcome being unfamiliar to your subconcious, it tries to find ways to stop ya.
Like I said, I forget about that whole thing I heard, so of course I forget to tell myself, "Hey, I know you're just trying to protect me but I'll be okay! Thank you, but I've got this now." ♥
I've certainly been doing a lot of praying about the whole transition to being a writer as my primary vocation. It's scary, for sure, but I think it could be very rewarding.
We've gotta embrace the baby steps and give ourselves grace when our narratives about our abilities falter! I completely understand, though.
Something just clicked this week! I think a BIG thing that's helped is having a handful of people cheering me on here on Substack. Receiving feedback feedback, praise, and even just engagement makes me SO excited!
And I also got two tips! That always makes me gasp and motivates me quite a bit haha.
But even with those things, it took a minute to feel as good as I do (right now, let's cross our fingers it's a more permanent stay!) but I think what also has been helping is just being in an environment (in real life) where I can embrace it.
I took a 2-week break cause I needed to experience life to have fodder to write, and to heal a bit more (not that I can check it off a list, but stepping back was even a first healing step ya know?). It really helped and made a flood of new pieces come to me!
Then just not having to caregive anymore gives me time (which I've been having), but the difference I think is the energy around it all.
I think I'm gonna write about it, but there were so many times where I felt I fought for my right to write, and even eventually was fighting myself. So it was like an epiphany! I am FREE! Life is too short to be scared and create fake rules anymore!
This took MONTHS to embrace this, but I'm here right now!
"Life is too short to be scared and create fake rules anymore!" ❤
I'm going to take this line with me on my writer's journey, if that's okay. 😁
I'd be honored! Haha I love that you love that! I like, *noticed* that I was making up all these rules that were stopping me and I had to break that mindset and... said rules lol!
Isn't it strange how we wall ourselves in with rules that make no sense as we're attempting to liberate ourselves to write?
Yes! I always forget, but I've heard that it's your subconcious trying to protect you from the unknown. You *consciously* wanna go after something, but the outcome being unfamiliar to your subconcious, it tries to find ways to stop ya.
Like I said, I forget about that whole thing I heard, so of course I forget to tell myself, "Hey, I know you're just trying to protect me but I'll be okay! Thank you, but I've got this now." ♥
That resonates, for sure. I'm very, very bad at jumping into the unknown.
We've just gotta keep on working on making the change! We've been so conditioned to think otherwise but we've got this!
I've certainly been doing a lot of praying about the whole transition to being a writer as my primary vocation. It's scary, for sure, but I think it could be very rewarding.
I think so too! I hope everything goes well on your journey and that you always get clear answers on your path and along the way.