Welcome alll, new and old readers alike. I'm back.. for good this time and with some new insight into why I haven't been as consistent as I should've been for the past 9 years.
I started my blog because I’ve always been a writer and I need to write, but I was getting increasingly frustrated with writing it. Something wasn't clicking, I wasn't getting subscribers, shares, feedback, nothing. However, as I write this I recognize I’m not a BLOGGER, but I am an author and thus my frustration with the blog's success wasn't being assessed correctly. I wasn't even writing it properly.
A few days ago I was listening to Paster Sarah Jakes Roberts’ podcast episode on Vulnerability and this moment of clarity happened. As vulnerable as I THOUGHT I may have been, I wasn't. My blog was started to share my story. Yet, my fear of judgement, of backlash, of failure stopped me from sharing my stories in their wholeness. Reducing them to mere moments to move them into spaces of positivity and as true as they may be, it’s not the reality of those moments. My target audience isn’t the people that have seen me go through all these trials and yet I was writing for them.
So here’s my reintroduction. All former posts are gone because this, this is me and it will be raw and real and uncomfortable at times and that’s ok. My audience includes those who feel unseen, who have lost hope, who are on their 11th or 12th reasons. This is for those daughters, mothers, girlfriends who never feel like they are good or good enough.
This is for us who battle life every day with smiles on our faces.
I love you. I see you. I am you.
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