Creativity as a Practice for Reclaiming the Divine Feminine
Hello beloved reader,
As I move toward finalizing this book proposal, I often need to remind myself to cultivate courage. One way I do this is by returning to Beth Kempton’s brilliant book The Way of the Fearless Writer. While walking the other day and listening to the audio edition, I was struck again by this beautiful reminder (bolding is mine):
In the course of researching this book, I carried out an in-depth survey of over 1,100 writers from more than forty countries, which revealed that many of our fears are universal. We fear being seen, judged, ostracized, or ridiculed, and we fear both failure and success. All these fears arise from a worldview that sees us as separate from one another.1
The assumption behind each of these fears is that other people, even those we love, exist as judge, critic, and competition. This is totally natural in the materialistic society in which we live, which pitches us against each other with a “survival of the fittest” mentality. But it is devastating…