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Alisha J Perry's avatar

Thank you for this - the feeling of being SO FAR BEHIND, the deeply-worn trench of snoozing my creativity and aborting my creations for fear of losing control of my life - and the perfectionist need to do it all right and win all the awards and appreciation on my first time - make it hard to breathe through the project until the end. I often joke about needing prenatal care during the gestation period of my books, and a midwife to help me push it out...the fear, the anxiety, the expectations that I have put on myself make finishing my book horrifying. And it's only a children's book. It's not even the hard topics I want to write about. I'm continuing to put out into the universe that I need a grief counselor just for the ghosts of the library that I never created.

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Lilliana Mendez-Soto's avatar

Wonderful reflection on how every part of lives makes us who we are, and able to write what we write. Looking forward to your class May 18, as I'm determining how to bring my long worked-on novel into the world. Peace till then 🩷

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Maurice Carlos Ruffin's avatar

See you then, my friend!😇

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Harvey Hamer's avatar

As a fellow mutliversal life-viewer since an early age, I really needed to hear this! Thank you

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Maurice Carlos Ruffin's avatar

It's always good to hear from you, Harvey! You're welcome.

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Maurice Carlos Ruffin's avatar

It's always good to hear from you, Harvey! You're welcome.

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Anthony Butler's avatar

As part of my leadership, communication, and coaching courses, I tell participants that "you are the sum total of your lifetime events. Those events make you, youi."

This is usually part of a lesson that teaches that you can't change people, only influence them, because you can't change their past. We are where we've been.

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Alisha J Perry's avatar

Yes...if I change a single part of my life, everything changes, and it might not land me where I think I could be by now. Thanks for how you helped me embrace myself with respect for myself where I have been and where I am now.

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