The pain of re-entry

How having a stop-start mind creates barriers to growth

Begin, again… I’m aware that I’ve not been playing in this Substack realm for ages. Truthfully, I haven’t ever experienced a full season of growth in this garden yet, but I’m determined to try and plant some new seeds. Now that I’m enjoying creating after a few years of hibernation, and my mind is whirling again with too many ideas, I’m trying to think of ways to get some of them out of my head and into other worlds… like this one.

Yet the struggle of the start is always so close to not making it worthwhile, I find. So instead of overthinking, and over-expressing this process, that I’ve no doubt you’re all very well aware of… I’m just going to dive into the cold water, and swim around messily with my words, and my art, until I warm up.

This is the image of the pain of yet another new start… I’ve drawn iterations of it before… but will never not need the reminder of the hopefulness and lightness that lies ahead.

Oh, and before I stop, I just wanted to say how hard my head found it today to even figure out where the hell to go in this app in order to be able to write these words to share. I feel like an old woman (my mother ;) trying to navigate technology these days!

Here’s to the collective planting of creative seeds, and the acknowledgement of the pain that comes with the breaking of solid ground, and the reminder that it’s a ‘point’ in time, not a full, and colourful experience.

However if you’d like to let me borrow your plough (or pickaxe?), know that I’d be very grateful ;)

Giant love 🌱