I’d like to finally be honest with you about something. I have a persistent, age-old block that I’m ready to—and need to—finally release: I am deeply afraid of consistently and widely sharing the most vulnerable, authentic, and unfiltered version of myself with the world. That’s why I’ve struggled to share my writing regularly, even though it’s one of my greatest passions…
Reflecting back upon my life, I had spent so much of it living in my head, replaying the past, worrying about the future, and rarely able to be completely present. I turned to various distractions to give myself a temporary reprieve from my thoughts, but at best I was substituting internal noise with external noise, and at worst I was numbing…