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Hi! I can relate to your experience. That feeling of getting high off untangling a giant personal mystery I thought I had finally solved completely and perfectly. It’s intoxicating and have also made choices that seemed like a good idea under this influence many times. Oh Contrere mofrere! Terrible emotional hangover the next day. Insanity. Messes. Again.

What really happened was the realization that I gained huge awareness of the issue and had success IRL because I had new tool/coping mechanism to add my toolbox and used it effectively. And my heart knowledge had finally learned the lesson. Nothing is ever perfect generally or completely known as it relates to the experiencing our human condition. We can aspire to doing our very best work and serving others but now I know when saying “good enough” is ok. Its 10pm. Stop working. Go to bed. It’s ok to say no. The wisdom you gained via experience and trusting your instincts to not send the newsletter and sleep on it is a huge win. Especially true if you were also under a deadline to publish. I think you said publishing deadlines are a bit flexible. Regardless, you and your stakeholders benefited from your decision, imo. Trusting oneself and setting/maintaining boundaries has been a life long struggle for me. I love hearing that you won the battle, sister! Thank you so much for sharing your story. I sincerely appreciate it.

PS. I just found you on here today and immediately subscribed. So glad I did. I love reading your posts. Your topics and content are inspiring. And your story telling and writing style are a true gift! I do not think your content needs to be edited down to a quick read. It takes time to tell a proper story to draw ppl in to reading all of it it to understand your pov and look forward to the next episode. I know we live today in headlines, sound bites, clicks, ad revenue metrics, etc. I get that reality as well.

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Welcome Andrea. So glad to have you here, can already see how additive your insights are going

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