There is something about the blank page, canvas or the artist’s easel of choice that can fill us with a silent sense of dread. But with a little reframing you can liken this feeling to the anxiety you would feel before jumping out of an airplane, competing in a sports event or getting ready to deliver a speech.
When we push through the painful barrier of resistance and see success on the other side, there is a deep feeling of satisfaction that penetrates deep into our soul.
Steven Pressfeild said it best in his book “The War Of Art” “The…
As an intro to this article, I want to honour all Mothers, no matter how they have birthed their children. This is a different perspective, which is the subjective opinion of the parents of a beautiful baby who made the conscious choice to birth in a non medicalised way.
Our daughter Rose is 4 weeks old today and we birthed her in somewhat unusual circumstances, although for reasons I will share momentarily, we hope this becomes more common in time. We had what is called a “free lotus birth”. A free birth is an unassisted birth, without the aid of…
Between 2015–2019 I partnered with a high traffic website as co-owner and content manager. We published up to five articles daily, and I was responsible for writing, curating and managing other writers.
During this time the website went from 500k Facebook followers, to 1.7 million, and the traffic went from 500k visits a month, to a peak of nearly 10 million, finally averaging out at around four million monthly views.
I wrote about 600 articles, and had a front row seat to observe thousands of published articles. …
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