1. I liked seeing your happier rejected parts panel!
3. (I’m doing 3 first because I had more to say for 2 haha.) Yes I have to an extent! It’s mainly around my family. I feel like I never resonated with “disappointing” my parents because I felt what I liked was SO me and their issues with it seemed like a “you” problem. But that also proceeded into WWIII, especially with my mom because she REALLY wanted me to be a certain way.
Even though I still feel I had a similar mindset most of my life, I felt more like I was “on” around family, and I never was away from family, so it got exhausting and constrictive to not just live “out loud.”
But being myself online has helped and finding spaces I could safely be open helped too! (As well as restricting and blocking family online so I could freely express myself LOL.)
2. Others: It hasn’t been until the past handful of years that I truly felt I HAD any power where people could trust me and my words. They may have, but it’s been my own inner struggle of living my life believing family never TRULY heard me or listened to me. So when I’d get excited to share something with others, I just believed no one would care, or click on a link to see what I was talking about, etc. but they do! That feels good!
BUT when I got more into the coaching realm, I learned from a lot of amazing coaches what it means to make it clear that you’re just their in the guide. That they have the power and tools within them to create the healing and magic in their lives. You’re just shining light on it for them, or helping them see it in a perspective that may never have clicked for them before.
I’ve read, and listened to, quite a bit of content about making sure there’s boundaries set around coach and client so the relationship doesn’t become dependent on you being their savior, and I like that.
I also enjoy finding expanders who seems to have that practice down, like off the top of my head I think of Africa Brooke on IG. She teaches and mentors and shares her experience, AND she always declares her boundaries and reminds people that they are free-thinkers and don’t have to agree with her or take in what she’s saying as *their* truth (she says it much more eloquently). Or my coaches Cora-Lynn Hazelwood and her biz partner Chantal practice it all the time with us, training us in their container to become more self-reliant.
We of course ask questions where we need to and they show up to answer questions where agreed upon, but they make sure we remember that we can ask EVERYONE in the group questions too. That they’ve curated a community of smart people so be sure to communicate with one another too. And they almost always remember to turn the thanks and praise given to them for changing lives and mindset and such back to the person who did the work to get there. Love it.
Okay so this is super long as usual so I’ll make the “myself” response shorter haha!
Myself: Disempowering myself was pretty bad come the end of high school and in college. I felt like the baby elephant metaphor?
The one where a baby elephant is tied to a stake in the ground and can’t leave the spot, and he grows into an adult elephant and still believes it’s trapped by that now tiiiiiiny stake in the ground. That was me, I repeated the mantra that I was trapped and had no power over my life for YEARS and absolutely believed it and wallowed in it and it was my reality, until it wasn’t! :) like, mentally. My surroundings didn’t change so much to mirror my internal changes but the internal created some amazing external changes I KNKW wouldn’t have happened if I didn’t change myself.
Omg - it made me so happy to read this bit> "I learned from a lot of amazing coaches what it means to make it clear that you’re just their in the guide. That they have the power and tools within them to create the healing and magic in their lives. You’re just shining light on it for them, or helping them see it in a perspective that may never have clicked for them before"
I don't think of myself as a coach exactly, but there is so much bullshit in that(/our ?) industry around keeping people dependent and claiming the wins of clients. I do not love when people use testimonials to claim the wins of their clients. It's another tricky area, coz I think the coaches DO help, facilitate etc, but claiming the wins as though the client didn't do the winning themselves feels icky to me.
And oh yes, the baby elephant conundrum! Don't we all live that way until we don't? 😁
Oh yes I totally agree! Those two same coaches also celebrate their clients' wins by sharing their business (in consented), and just celebrating THEM without mentioning what coach process they did to get there. They both praise the person for doing the work and always turn the empowerment toward the clients and I love it!
And yup! It's always a "WHEW!" that leaves my mouth when I look back! Haha
I shouldn't be surprised, but I've just discovered something else we have in common. I am particularly inspired when I can support others from disempowerment to empowerment. I'm particularly conscious of not abusing the power I have (I know I have a lot) at the expense of others.
I'm sorry, Medha, but you are a teacher. I learn - or relearn - something new every time I read your work. It's not your fault. You can't help it. You're just really good at it :-)
Presenting the genuine you is always good. You just have to let people take that for what they will. How's that for preachy?
Haha. You're the best. Interestingly, I have no problem with someone ELSE calling me a teacher! So to you I say a very genuine 'thank you'!
And yeah. Agreed. It's freeing other people to respond to me how they will is always a) my intention and b) what happens irrespective of anything I do. And although I'm approximately 23 billion times better at it than I used to be, I still occasionally find places where I'm holding tension around it. This post is exhibit A.
Oh thank you Wendi! I really appreciate it. And if you did want to share the actual drawings in there, that would be totally ok with me. I like how you made it a shorter, more focused post about the specifics of that dynamic. Thanks again!
Thank you! I’m glad you’re happy with my post that quoted your words! I would have shared the drawings if I could have figured out how to. The usual copy and paste I do for words did not work for the drawings. And I didn’t want to just cross post your whole article, because I never do that. It means my subscribers get an extra email, and cross posts don’t show up on my page online, so unless I write a separate post just for that it seems like I didn’t publish that week.
Oh that makes sense. I'm not really across the practical details of the whole cross-post thing, so thanks for explaining. And no probs. If it happens in the future that you want to share any of my drawings, just drop me a line and I can get the image to you in a way that works for you. Thanks again!
I love this, especially the drawings! In fact, I think your newsletter is so awesome that I will quote it in mine this Friday. I will also recommend your newsletter. Keep up the great work!
Regarding the questions you asked, I rarely hold back my honest thoughts or feelings to please others. In fact, sometimes I have the opposite problem! I can be too blunt when I am asked for feedback or have a strong opinion about something someone says or does.
I’m just passionate about the importance of honesty. Even when someone else is giving me feedback on my work or how something I said affected them, I want to know what they really think, not a toned down sanitized version meant to spare my feelings!
I definitely want to empower both myself and others, though, so I hate it when my harsh criticism hurts or silences someone. I’m usually the one hurt or silenced by my inner critic, but sometimes others are, too.
I love all of the drawings so it’s hard to pick just one favorite, but I think mine is the one of the woman asking herself that if she wants to grow shouldn’t she be happy when one of her parts brings an issue that needs further work to her attention instead of upset. I may have to print that one and tape it on the wall beside my bed as a reminder!
Hey Wendi. So much to say in response! Firstly thank you so much! My dream is to grow Great Things, so you quoting it and recommending it means so much! Thank you.
And I relate. Truth is one of my values. And, in truth (hehe), I have bounced around between being too blunt to not saying what I need to say. I clearly remember being a teenager and someone sitting me down one day and saying 'you know other people have feelings, yeah?' I think that was the start of a LOT of silencing myself. I think it's a balancing act and a journey, so I'm glad we're talking about it (coz I think we mostly try to manage it inside of ourselves). Yay for community!
Like the *insert the video montage* joke implies, it took me a long time to really shift to living from that place. And words can't describe how much better (as in more pleasant, more fun AND more effective!) that way of living is.
Hello Medha. I love your unique and potent mix of drawings and authentic writing. I have been a fan since first finding your guided meditations on Insight Timer. But now I feel as if I have really got to know you, the real you.
I had a month ago a very powerful Akashic record session where I was told that my soul had chosen to lessons about personal power, about taking power away from people and what it would be like to allow and guide! There is indeed a vast difference between knowing what is right for people and imposing that upon them versus knowing what is right for people because you have an objective standpoint and you can give them the choice to choose.
Apparently the biggest theme in my soul's journey is about what I am choosing to feel in any given moment and allowing people the flexibility to be themselves, thereby allowing myself the flexibility to be myself. To not exert control over others and to not accept control from others! These are the themes that as a soul I have chosen to weave through lifetimes.
And finally ... and I feel this relates so eerily to your post ... I have chosen as a life purpose in this lifetime to master the ability to have self confidence and compassion to live that self empowerment without the control. These themes have been showing so strongly in the last few months.
So after not daring to speak my own truth, I have dared to start publishing blog posts on my website that really show me as my authentic self. Pretty exhilarating when I first came out of my spiritual closet but got knocked out by the lesson of not limiting my power or belittling it when I don't get responses to what I choose to share with the world. Trying to just spread my love and knowledge and positively impact others with no expectations!
Hey Natalie! Firstly, can we just go back to this sentence? "I love your unique and potent mix of drawings and authentic writing. " ... hang on. Give me a second to bask....
Ok, so maybe we are spiritual twins, coz I feel like my playground this lifetime is very similar. Reclaiming personal power without any kind of force, rigidity or control. I think we humans are hilarious. We create such an alluring illusion of control. I think we ACTUALLY control very little, but we like to act and think that we control a lot. It can all get a little murky and confusing, but I also it gets easier with time and practice!
Yay to you for sharing yourself authentically in your blog! It takes a lot of guts to do that, so have a cyber high-five from me ✋🏽
Love this article, Medha. Once again, genuine. I find myself holding back in my own writing. I catch myself being too focused on readers' interpretations. I haven't shared the pieces I've written that are my favorite. They're quirky and bold, characteristics I tend not to express to most people. As a reader, though, I'm drawn to posts that express a writer's true nature... sincere, quirky, bold, too detailed, and funny.
Isn't it funny how we do that? Not sure if you'd be up for this, but I'll offer it to you and let you decide. I used to be an editor, so if you feel comfortable with it, you could send me one of the pieces and I could have a look? You can even be super clear with me about what kind of feedback you wanted? I'd never bullshit you, but maybe a friendly, supportive eye previewing one of the pieces might help? Just a thought, so zero presure x
I totally feel you on this although I don't have the same cult experience. I have been thinking about it in the I don't want your power but I'm happy to hold it while you heal the parts of you that think you don't deserve it......
The more work I do on allowing all parts of myself to be seen and loved the more willing and able I am to take my own place at the table.
Lastly I often do this in my writing where all the thoughts don't quite make it so it seems like there is a bit of a disconnect but it feels connected to me.
Well that's super interesting! I love that you've arrived at a thing that works for you. Your comment helped me to realise that in sessions, I'm a ninja at this. I have no problem doing what needs to be done in the moment to support the person in front of me. And I don't even categorise or define it in any way. But in the writing/drawing thing, I still get tripped up a little sometimes.
For me, thinking that I'm holding their power for a while wouldn't work. I found that interesting. Is that because it genuinely doesn't work for me? Or because I'm still clearing some crap from the cult experience? My sense is that it's because it doesn't work for me. I don't think I want to hold their power even for second. When I think about what I do in sessions, I think I possibly get them to give it to a more empowered part of them? I'm still making my way through this one.
In sessions it's not a conscious decision really but it's how I was thinking about it when I described it recently - I also love your idea of giving it to a more empowered version of themselves. All of this is done on some kind of subconscious realm though so I'm not 100% sure what actually happens! :)
I wonder if it has to do with the actual action happens in the heart (in sessions) but the drawing and writing happens in a more head centered space?
I know this is a big struggle for me to get clear on as well.....
On a personal note I have a healy and there is an option to have it read you to say what kind of energetic maintenance you need in the moment ....and I love to use that feature...which struck me as another way I give my power away.....it's me being lazy (said in the kindest way) it's just easier to press a button rather than to take a moment and think about how I am really feeling and what would serve me best in this moment.
Oh that IS interesting! I have a healy too. I got the fanciest version, but I mostly never feel like using it. Sometimes I think I have it, so I should use it more, but I figure if it's not calling me, then it's not calling me. I do like it when I use it - although I'm not that sure that I feel the difference in the resonance between one program and another. Do you sense a difference?
And that's a clever distinction. I know that in sessions if I am thinking/calculating/assessing, then I'm not completely tuned in. So maybe that's the distinction? I'll feel into it next time I sit to write/draw something. Which I wouldn't have done without this chat, so thank you!
I am good at empowering others and I am also good at disempowering myself, as well. So that's a question to ponder - how to use the empowering tools that I use with others with myself?
Isn't that super interesting? I used to be the same way. It happened again in what I wrote above obviously, but I've been working with myself as though I am my own client for quite a few years now and it's been an awesome hack. It means I can access all the acceptance and compassion I easily have for my clients and direct it to myself! Enjoy the journey!
I loved the tape over the mouth bit as well! As a new artist I really struggled with where to put the white shadows! I'm learning as I go. And hhmmmmm. If you come up with anything you wanna share after your long think, I'd love to hear it!
1. I liked seeing your happier rejected parts panel!
3. (I’m doing 3 first because I had more to say for 2 haha.) Yes I have to an extent! It’s mainly around my family. I feel like I never resonated with “disappointing” my parents because I felt what I liked was SO me and their issues with it seemed like a “you” problem. But that also proceeded into WWIII, especially with my mom because she REALLY wanted me to be a certain way.
Even though I still feel I had a similar mindset most of my life, I felt more like I was “on” around family, and I never was away from family, so it got exhausting and constrictive to not just live “out loud.”
But being myself online has helped and finding spaces I could safely be open helped too! (As well as restricting and blocking family online so I could freely express myself LOL.)
2. Others: It hasn’t been until the past handful of years that I truly felt I HAD any power where people could trust me and my words. They may have, but it’s been my own inner struggle of living my life believing family never TRULY heard me or listened to me. So when I’d get excited to share something with others, I just believed no one would care, or click on a link to see what I was talking about, etc. but they do! That feels good!
BUT when I got more into the coaching realm, I learned from a lot of amazing coaches what it means to make it clear that you’re just their in the guide. That they have the power and tools within them to create the healing and magic in their lives. You’re just shining light on it for them, or helping them see it in a perspective that may never have clicked for them before.
I’ve read, and listened to, quite a bit of content about making sure there’s boundaries set around coach and client so the relationship doesn’t become dependent on you being their savior, and I like that.
I also enjoy finding expanders who seems to have that practice down, like off the top of my head I think of Africa Brooke on IG. She teaches and mentors and shares her experience, AND she always declares her boundaries and reminds people that they are free-thinkers and don’t have to agree with her or take in what she’s saying as *their* truth (she says it much more eloquently). Or my coaches Cora-Lynn Hazelwood and her biz partner Chantal practice it all the time with us, training us in their container to become more self-reliant.
We of course ask questions where we need to and they show up to answer questions where agreed upon, but they make sure we remember that we can ask EVERYONE in the group questions too. That they’ve curated a community of smart people so be sure to communicate with one another too. And they almost always remember to turn the thanks and praise given to them for changing lives and mindset and such back to the person who did the work to get there. Love it.
Okay so this is super long as usual so I’ll make the “myself” response shorter haha!
Myself: Disempowering myself was pretty bad come the end of high school and in college. I felt like the baby elephant metaphor?
The one where a baby elephant is tied to a stake in the ground and can’t leave the spot, and he grows into an adult elephant and still believes it’s trapped by that now tiiiiiiny stake in the ground. That was me, I repeated the mantra that I was trapped and had no power over my life for YEARS and absolutely believed it and wallowed in it and it was my reality, until it wasn’t! :) like, mentally. My surroundings didn’t change so much to mirror my internal changes but the internal created some amazing external changes I KNKW wouldn’t have happened if I didn’t change myself.
Omg - it made me so happy to read this bit> "I learned from a lot of amazing coaches what it means to make it clear that you’re just their in the guide. That they have the power and tools within them to create the healing and magic in their lives. You’re just shining light on it for them, or helping them see it in a perspective that may never have clicked for them before"
I don't think of myself as a coach exactly, but there is so much bullshit in that(/our ?) industry around keeping people dependent and claiming the wins of clients. I do not love when people use testimonials to claim the wins of their clients. It's another tricky area, coz I think the coaches DO help, facilitate etc, but claiming the wins as though the client didn't do the winning themselves feels icky to me.
And oh yes, the baby elephant conundrum! Don't we all live that way until we don't? 😁
Oh yes I totally agree! Those two same coaches also celebrate their clients' wins by sharing their business (in consented), and just celebrating THEM without mentioning what coach process they did to get there. They both praise the person for doing the work and always turn the empowerment toward the clients and I love it!
And yup! It's always a "WHEW!" that leaves my mouth when I look back! Haha
I vote for more of this in the interwebs and less of the BS. I guess that's what we're trying to do here hehe
Yes yes!
I shouldn't be surprised, but I've just discovered something else we have in common. I am particularly inspired when I can support others from disempowerment to empowerment. I'm particularly conscious of not abusing the power I have (I know I have a lot) at the expense of others.
Snap! x
I'm sorry, Medha, but you are a teacher. I learn - or relearn - something new every time I read your work. It's not your fault. You can't help it. You're just really good at it :-)
Presenting the genuine you is always good. You just have to let people take that for what they will. How's that for preachy?
Haha. You're the best. Interestingly, I have no problem with someone ELSE calling me a teacher! So to you I say a very genuine 'thank you'!
And yeah. Agreed. It's freeing other people to respond to me how they will is always a) my intention and b) what happens irrespective of anything I do. And although I'm approximately 23 billion times better at it than I used to be, I still occasionally find places where I'm holding tension around it. This post is exhibit A.
Yes! Yes! Yes! to all of the above text. There is not a single sentence i'd disagree with.
Loved your drawing of the eye, that was my fave this week.
Haha. I love that people pick such different favourites. We are all so unique.
Thank you!
Here's the link to my newsletter article that quotes excerpts from this one: https://wendigordon.substack.com/p/do-you-want-to-learn-and-grow?sd=pf
Thanks for the inspiration!
Oh thank you Wendi! I really appreciate it. And if you did want to share the actual drawings in there, that would be totally ok with me. I like how you made it a shorter, more focused post about the specifics of that dynamic. Thanks again!
Thank you! I’m glad you’re happy with my post that quoted your words! I would have shared the drawings if I could have figured out how to. The usual copy and paste I do for words did not work for the drawings. And I didn’t want to just cross post your whole article, because I never do that. It means my subscribers get an extra email, and cross posts don’t show up on my page online, so unless I write a separate post just for that it seems like I didn’t publish that week.
Oh that makes sense. I'm not really across the practical details of the whole cross-post thing, so thanks for explaining. And no probs. If it happens in the future that you want to share any of my drawings, just drop me a line and I can get the image to you in a way that works for you. Thanks again!
I love this, especially the drawings! In fact, I think your newsletter is so awesome that I will quote it in mine this Friday. I will also recommend your newsletter. Keep up the great work!
Regarding the questions you asked, I rarely hold back my honest thoughts or feelings to please others. In fact, sometimes I have the opposite problem! I can be too blunt when I am asked for feedback or have a strong opinion about something someone says or does.
I’m just passionate about the importance of honesty. Even when someone else is giving me feedback on my work or how something I said affected them, I want to know what they really think, not a toned down sanitized version meant to spare my feelings!
I definitely want to empower both myself and others, though, so I hate it when my harsh criticism hurts or silences someone. I’m usually the one hurt or silenced by my inner critic, but sometimes others are, too.
I love all of the drawings so it’s hard to pick just one favorite, but I think mine is the one of the woman asking herself that if she wants to grow shouldn’t she be happy when one of her parts brings an issue that needs further work to her attention instead of upset. I may have to print that one and tape it on the wall beside my bed as a reminder!
Hey Wendi. So much to say in response! Firstly thank you so much! My dream is to grow Great Things, so you quoting it and recommending it means so much! Thank you.
And I relate. Truth is one of my values. And, in truth (hehe), I have bounced around between being too blunt to not saying what I need to say. I clearly remember being a teenager and someone sitting me down one day and saying 'you know other people have feelings, yeah?' I think that was the start of a LOT of silencing myself. I think it's a balancing act and a journey, so I'm glad we're talking about it (coz I think we mostly try to manage it inside of ourselves). Yay for community!
Like the *insert the video montage* joke implies, it took me a long time to really shift to living from that place. And words can't describe how much better (as in more pleasant, more fun AND more effective!) that way of living is.
Thank you again!
Hello Medha. I love your unique and potent mix of drawings and authentic writing. I have been a fan since first finding your guided meditations on Insight Timer. But now I feel as if I have really got to know you, the real you.
I had a month ago a very powerful Akashic record session where I was told that my soul had chosen to lessons about personal power, about taking power away from people and what it would be like to allow and guide! There is indeed a vast difference between knowing what is right for people and imposing that upon them versus knowing what is right for people because you have an objective standpoint and you can give them the choice to choose.
Apparently the biggest theme in my soul's journey is about what I am choosing to feel in any given moment and allowing people the flexibility to be themselves, thereby allowing myself the flexibility to be myself. To not exert control over others and to not accept control from others! These are the themes that as a soul I have chosen to weave through lifetimes.
And finally ... and I feel this relates so eerily to your post ... I have chosen as a life purpose in this lifetime to master the ability to have self confidence and compassion to live that self empowerment without the control. These themes have been showing so strongly in the last few months.
So after not daring to speak my own truth, I have dared to start publishing blog posts on my website that really show me as my authentic self. Pretty exhilarating when I first came out of my spiritual closet but got knocked out by the lesson of not limiting my power or belittling it when I don't get responses to what I choose to share with the world. Trying to just spread my love and knowledge and positively impact others with no expectations!
Hey Natalie! Firstly, can we just go back to this sentence? "I love your unique and potent mix of drawings and authentic writing. " ... hang on. Give me a second to bask....
Ok, so maybe we are spiritual twins, coz I feel like my playground this lifetime is very similar. Reclaiming personal power without any kind of force, rigidity or control. I think we humans are hilarious. We create such an alluring illusion of control. I think we ACTUALLY control very little, but we like to act and think that we control a lot. It can all get a little murky and confusing, but I also it gets easier with time and practice!
Yay to you for sharing yourself authentically in your blog! It takes a lot of guts to do that, so have a cyber high-five from me ✋🏽
Love this article, Medha. Once again, genuine. I find myself holding back in my own writing. I catch myself being too focused on readers' interpretations. I haven't shared the pieces I've written that are my favorite. They're quirky and bold, characteristics I tend not to express to most people. As a reader, though, I'm drawn to posts that express a writer's true nature... sincere, quirky, bold, too detailed, and funny.
Isn't it funny how we do that? Not sure if you'd be up for this, but I'll offer it to you and let you decide. I used to be an editor, so if you feel comfortable with it, you could send me one of the pieces and I could have a look? You can even be super clear with me about what kind of feedback you wanted? I'd never bullshit you, but maybe a friendly, supportive eye previewing one of the pieces might help? Just a thought, so zero presure x
Thank you! That's a great idea. I really appreciate it.
Alrighty then! I'll just leave this here: medha.murtagh@gmail.com 😁
Thank you so much!
Pleasure!
I totally feel you on this although I don't have the same cult experience. I have been thinking about it in the I don't want your power but I'm happy to hold it while you heal the parts of you that think you don't deserve it......
The more work I do on allowing all parts of myself to be seen and loved the more willing and able I am to take my own place at the table.
Lastly I often do this in my writing where all the thoughts don't quite make it so it seems like there is a bit of a disconnect but it feels connected to me.
Well that's super interesting! I love that you've arrived at a thing that works for you. Your comment helped me to realise that in sessions, I'm a ninja at this. I have no problem doing what needs to be done in the moment to support the person in front of me. And I don't even categorise or define it in any way. But in the writing/drawing thing, I still get tripped up a little sometimes.
For me, thinking that I'm holding their power for a while wouldn't work. I found that interesting. Is that because it genuinely doesn't work for me? Or because I'm still clearing some crap from the cult experience? My sense is that it's because it doesn't work for me. I don't think I want to hold their power even for second. When I think about what I do in sessions, I think I possibly get them to give it to a more empowered part of them? I'm still making my way through this one.
Such a juicy conversation.
In sessions it's not a conscious decision really but it's how I was thinking about it when I described it recently - I also love your idea of giving it to a more empowered version of themselves. All of this is done on some kind of subconscious realm though so I'm not 100% sure what actually happens! :)
I wonder if it has to do with the actual action happens in the heart (in sessions) but the drawing and writing happens in a more head centered space?
I know this is a big struggle for me to get clear on as well.....
On a personal note I have a healy and there is an option to have it read you to say what kind of energetic maintenance you need in the moment ....and I love to use that feature...which struck me as another way I give my power away.....it's me being lazy (said in the kindest way) it's just easier to press a button rather than to take a moment and think about how I am really feeling and what would serve me best in this moment.
So interesting isn't it?
Oh that IS interesting! I have a healy too. I got the fanciest version, but I mostly never feel like using it. Sometimes I think I have it, so I should use it more, but I figure if it's not calling me, then it's not calling me. I do like it when I use it - although I'm not that sure that I feel the difference in the resonance between one program and another. Do you sense a difference?
And that's a clever distinction. I know that in sessions if I am thinking/calculating/assessing, then I'm not completely tuned in. So maybe that's the distinction? I'll feel into it next time I sit to write/draw something. Which I wouldn't have done without this chat, so thank you!
I am good at empowering others and I am also good at disempowering myself, as well. So that's a question to ponder - how to use the empowering tools that I use with others with myself?
Isn't that super interesting? I used to be the same way. It happened again in what I wrote above obviously, but I've been working with myself as though I am my own client for quite a few years now and it's been an awesome hack. It means I can access all the acceptance and compassion I easily have for my clients and direct it to myself! Enjoy the journey!
Great post, Medha!
1. The iceberg! And I loved the tape-over-the-mouth, too.
2. What can I say? I'm a mess!
3. Ermmmmmmm, yes, probably. Gosh.
*goes away for a long think*
I loved the tape over the mouth bit as well! As a new artist I really struggled with where to put the white shadows! I'm learning as I go. And hhmmmmm. If you come up with anything you wanna share after your long think, I'd love to hear it!
Oh I'm completely comfortable with other people preaching ABOUT me - so I say 'go for it!'. And thank you!