Dear Dionne:

You are very welcome. I am glad to read that you are feeling better and that you are doing your best to cultivate self-compassion and patience!

“Writing is still difficult, but I am putting less pressure on myself“- recently, I picked lots of apple from many, many trees in an apple orchard, and found out that some of the apples rot while still on the trees. The main cause for the rot is candida, a fungal disease that affects apples and other fruit. Why am I telling you this? Because I think that Pressure does to Creativity what Candida does to Apples.

“Previously, I made the mistake of linking my self-worth to my ability to write“- if you go back in time to your first decade of life… do you remember what you linked back then to your self-worth?

“It doesn’t matter how quickly, easy or therapeutic other people find writing, I simply am not those people. I am learning a big part of writing is self-acceptance“- going back in time (and only if you wish to do so), what was so difficult for you to accept back then, about yourself?

* Feel free to not answer my questions, I am not entitled to answers. But maybe it will help you to answer..?

anita