Hi frens,
I’m gonna be honest- even after my inspiration trip to SF (pics below), I still stand uninspired. I can’t tell if it’s my period or the full moon that’s tonight (thank you yoga teacher for tipping me off), but I’ve decided to give myself a break and not try to create anything. I’ve been scrolling incessantly on social media and feeling the pressure to post something even though I’m not creatively compelled to. I’m feeling like my mind is going a mile a minute and it’s nestling into scarcity mindset of not knowing what’s next. In this transitional period of my life, I can see the planner part of me trying to orchestrate and strategize my next steps to get out of this uncomfortable grey area, which quickly turns into fear spiraling. My friend Sky texted me this earlier and I feel like if you’re in a similar situation, it may offer some comfort as it did to me:
So with that, I’m not going to try and figure out too much problem solving. This reminds me of a quote I came across that stuck with me:
So what I’m going to do instead is get into a new fiction novel gifted by a friend. We went to a bookstore after eating chicken and waffles and someone suggested that we buy each other books that we think they’d like. Here are the two that Addie and Brian got me:
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