I feel like everyone has been there at one time in their life or another…you feel stuck. Life has turned you every way but loose and the dominoes keep falling on top of your head to the point where you just know you have a concussion and need rest. But then, you try to take a break and the guilt starts eating at you. Like you can’t relax because there is too much work to be done. You can catch up on emails or start that DIY project you’ve been meaning to start. There may be a

Feeling like you aren’t good enough, like your work doesn’t matter, like you screw up more than you succeed. Every creative knows what imposter syndrome is…intimately. But it isn’t like just knowing what it is makes it any easier to avoid or overcome. You can know what a sinkhole is, but that doesn’t mean you’re prepared when one opens up in front of your car. And that is what imposter syndrome can feel like, a void that just gets deeper and deeper until we’re in a rabbit hol

I haven’t been writing that much lately. I think it is part being tired, part not wanting to use my brain, part the world being a mess. It’s probably a conglomeration of many things, but the result is that my creativity has really been put aside. More like stuffed into a trunk and thrown into my crawl space, if I am being honest. Of course, this isn’t the first time I have done this and I doubt that it will be the last, but I made the conscious decision to stop guilt tripping

Personally, I am all for it and I’ll get to that in a little bit. I was talking with a friend and while she used to be a big reader, life...

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