thank you so much for opening so vulnerably, i ADORED every sentence in this post that i read with the most intention. i felt that deeply and that resonated a lot with what i’m going through at the moment, tho it’s not linked to my place in the world and how to express myself. but thank you for your honesty, i feel like i was meant to read this to move on 💖
This makes me so happy, Alix! Like I mentioned above, I started this Substack with the belief that if my words reach even one person and meet them exactly where they are, that’s more than enough. It’s proof that when we share from a place of authenticity and fulfillment, everything else unfolds in its own time. I’m excited for this realization to land for you and hope it’s carrying into your day in a meaningful way.
This course is definitely peeling away hardened areas of my self. I wrote about how I stopped believing in my faculties, in my purpose in this world. I think after being rundown in college and post-college, I’ve accumulated a self-belief that my worth is what I can make out of my work, and when that wasn’t living up to my imagination, I gave up on my path and started adding fillers to life and to my time to avoid this reality. I’ve been waiting for a big bang moment in this area of my life to prove to me that I can create meaningful things (an article blowing up, an amazing job offer, etc) not realizing I have been doing that in such small ways all this time, I just didn’t recognize what that looked like.
That’s what it’s all about. Peeling back the layers we’ve built without even realizing. I really relate to the deep belief that worth is something we have to prove through our work, and how that can lead to craving validation—that big moment that tells us we’re seen. But when we create from that place of need instead of fulfillment, it can quietly strip away the joy and the outcome we’re hoping for. I know that when you start creating from a place of wholeness and let your own fulfillment be enough, everything else starts to follow. It’s about trusting that process and, more than anything, trusting yourself. Proud of you for sharing this and doing the work.
thank you so much for opening so vulnerably, i ADORED every sentence in this post that i read with the most intention. i felt that deeply and that resonated a lot with what i’m going through at the moment, tho it’s not linked to my place in the world and how to express myself. but thank you for your honesty, i feel like i was meant to read this to move on 💖
This makes me so happy, Alix! Like I mentioned above, I started this Substack with the belief that if my words reach even one person and meet them exactly where they are, that’s more than enough. It’s proof that when we share from a place of authenticity and fulfillment, everything else unfolds in its own time. I’m excited for this realization to land for you and hope it’s carrying into your day in a meaningful way.
This course is definitely peeling away hardened areas of my self. I wrote about how I stopped believing in my faculties, in my purpose in this world. I think after being rundown in college and post-college, I’ve accumulated a self-belief that my worth is what I can make out of my work, and when that wasn’t living up to my imagination, I gave up on my path and started adding fillers to life and to my time to avoid this reality. I’ve been waiting for a big bang moment in this area of my life to prove to me that I can create meaningful things (an article blowing up, an amazing job offer, etc) not realizing I have been doing that in such small ways all this time, I just didn’t recognize what that looked like.
That’s what it’s all about. Peeling back the layers we’ve built without even realizing. I really relate to the deep belief that worth is something we have to prove through our work, and how that can lead to craving validation—that big moment that tells us we’re seen. But when we create from that place of need instead of fulfillment, it can quietly strip away the joy and the outcome we’re hoping for. I know that when you start creating from a place of wholeness and let your own fulfillment be enough, everything else starts to follow. It’s about trusting that process and, more than anything, trusting yourself. Proud of you for sharing this and doing the work.