Just Begin Here.....

I do not believe myself to be a fantastic writer. I narrowly passed English in high school and the only feedback I remember getting from an English teacher when I dared to share some creative writing with him was laughter and an inappropriate comment. It was a little poetry that I had written, inspired by the love I felt for my boyfriend at the time. That teacher asked me if I had written the poem for him. I was horrified and embarrassed. Looking back on it, I was a 16-year-old girl, and he was a 30, maybe even a 40 something year old man. His response to my creative effort was inappropriate and damaging.

That one experience was not the sole reason I became creatively blocked, but it certainly did not encourage me to believe in my creative abilities.

I started this webpage driven by the desire to follow through with my creative energies. I wanted to reach more people and influence more lives, hopefully in the most positive ways that I can. It has been a slow and sometimes, stagnant journey. I know that I am held back by core a core belief that I am not good enough.

As an adult, I have dedicated a lot of time trying to identify the things that keep from following my most inspired path and then even more time trying to overcome or destroy those obstacles. I have a hard time seeing myself through the eyes of the people who value me. I am afraid that, if I make myself vulnerable by sharing my thoughts through writing, I will get hurt somehow and that I will not grow through the experience.

I do not have a focus for this blog. I intend to write often and to write from my heart, to write from the truth of my experience. The inspiration for my writing will be different from day to day and likely will be influence by any number of things, such as, motherhood, friendship, love, fear, yoga, breathing, chakras, symbolism, nature, psychology and maybe even the book I'm reading.

Whatever the topic, I am making it my mission to write with the intention to break old patterns of thinking, to grow in my creativity and to possibly inspire whoever finds me here.

If you got this far, thank you for staying with me. I hope you will come back.

Blessings,

Kerry