The risks your past self took
Video inside + journaling circle this Sunday <3
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You can be sensitive, overwhelmed, highly emotive, think in nonlinear ways, feel like an outsider in this world, and ~you can thrive~.
You can take up space and you can create something that births a deeper sense of self that you have longed for… that you have longed to know.
Staying true to your path opens doors for others. When we stick to our creative efforts and when we get creative around what sticking with it looks like, it opens doors for other people in absolutely miraculous ways.
(From this episode)
Welp! I tried to film a simple video-version of this letter and ended up sharing a whole lot more. Click below to listen/watch to this letter (and then some) as a video:
I am writing while thinking about keeping our hearts open to life: to what is vibrant and surreal, to what is mundane and familiar, and to incomprehensible pain and suffering. I’m thinking about what it means to embrace and be embraced by a new day, a new week. I’m thinking about how painful it is to not show up in the ways you know you can (to be who you know you can be!), how freeing it is to choose process over outcome, and how necessary it is that we have community, both close and far. You don’t have to hold it all alone.
In case you missed it:
This episode called ‘On feeling ready, striving, and sticking with it’ has received such positive feedback in the last couple weeks, that I’m giving it a boost in case you missed it!
If you’ve been crafting a project or creative vision for some time (or if it has been living in your heart), this Gentle Musings episode is for you.
I talk about:
Giving credit to your past self. Seriously. They took so many risks on your behalf (just as you are for who you are becoming!). Look around and take stock of how far you’ve come.
Stepping out of the loop of striving and reachinnggg for some ideal arrival and rooting yourself in process
How ‘sticking with it’ (whatever your ‘it’ is) is a creative practice in itself
Just around the corner:
JOURNALING CIRCLE
This Sunday at 11am EST. We gather together on the last Sunday of every month.
In the words of John O’Donohue:
We are so busy managing our lives, we forget this great mystery we are involved in.
One of my many intentions in offering this journaling circle is for this to be a space where you don't have to be busy managing your life.
This is a space where you don’t need to manage the quality of what you're doing. This is a space where you don’t need to manage your image.
This is a space to remember 'this great mystery' with playful reverence.
This is a space to say 'what if?' again and again.
This is a space to step out of your own way.
This is a space of connection, honesty, and joy.
A creative ritual
A personal monthly reset
A tiny, sacred community of practice
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I hope to see you at the journaling circle!
Wishing you a gentle day of boldness,
Maggy