Fear & Ego

In my last blog post, I wrote about the gift I received from my friend Corinne : “The Way of the Fearless Writer” by Beth Kempton. Though I truly want to read the book and start working on the exercises within, for some reason I am scared to even open the book.  Today, all I…

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Tilting at windmills

A few days ago, I read a post by Sunil Bhandari on Substack. It was titled “Why I won’t protest”. His post reached somewhere deep within me and dragged out old memories of who I once was.  My mum used to teasingly call me “Don Quixote” and insisted that most of the time I was…

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Promises And Reality

Today I am finally sitting down to write. The last time I posted on my blog was on the 14th of February. That’s almost two months ago. This is in spite of all the promises I made to myself, on my birthday in November and again at the beginning of this year. The thing is,…

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I am worth it!

“I am worth it!” Every book, post , video on self help urges you to repeat this mantra to yourself. Now, the problem with my brain is that it can’t just accept orders or instructions. It has to question every one of them. And so it started. What is the “it”? What are you worth?…

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