Sydney Barnett
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Writer. Singer. Coach.
Sydney Barnett
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“Commit to living la vida verdad — the true life. Anything less takes a toll both physically and psychically.” - The Wild & Sacred Feminine Deck by Niki Dewart & Elizabeth Marglin, Curadera/Healing
This reminds me of what Disha named, “The Hannah Montana” effect. Living a double life, where perhaps one life is not your truth and juggling this leaves you exhausted physically, mentally and emotionally.
Growing up I observed this within my family dynamics. My parents acted very differently around other parents, teachers, friends…even other relatives. Like they were wearing a mask. Today I notice my father’s voice grow deeper as he takes work calls, and my mother act nice to our neighbors, then later gossip about them at our dinner table.
I want to shift seamlessly between all aspects of my life and be my one true self, from hanging out with friends, to work, to family time. I want to actively work on this.
Romanticism Is Not A Weakness
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I feel such intense gratitude when I read a book by someone who, for a brief moment, makes me feel less alone in the world and makes these complicated things in my brain feel a little easier to understand.
Kevin Wilson • On What Makes a Good Writer with Kevin Wilson
So important to create. Even if you think your story isn’t important or your voice isn’t you unique.. you never know when it will touch someone and change their life.
“Illness comes when you lose connection to your holy essence. See your ailments as opportunities to open up something in your heart that’s been locked away.
Every ache has a story behind it that must be seen, heard, and understood before it can be mended.
A body in distress reflects a soul in longing.
A wound it meant to be worked through. Once it
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Harmful, Internalized Concepts of Love (Hetero Female POV) and Self-Erasure in Relationship
Excerpt from CJ Hauser’s essay “Hepburn qua hepburn” in her memoir collection “The Crane Wife” page 45.
She goes onto say on the next page, “I was in my mid-twenties when I started seeing, in Liz Imbrie’s face, both pain and the stifling of pain, as Connor, not unlike Tracy, continually trots after the next thing that makes him feel like the kind of person he wants to be.”
Don’t we all want to date someone who makes us feel like the version of ourselves we like? I think that the chase from one person to the next is the toxicity at play.
“It took a very long time for me to understand that while, yes, I had behaved badly in this relationship multiple times, and yes, I was full of sins and flaws, being loved by a person who saw the worst in me wasn’t the same as being honest and sorry about my failures. That it was possible to own and admit your mistakes without building a
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“It took a very long time for me to understand that while, yes, I had behaved badly in this relationship multiple times, and yes, I was full of sins and flaws, being loved by a person who saw the worst in me wasn’t the same as being honest and sorry about my failures. That it was possible to own and admit your mistakes without building a relationship around them.” - excerpt from CJ Hauser’s essay, “Hepburn qua hepburn” in her memoir essay novel “The Crane Wife” page 49.
On page 50, Hauser goes onto say, “There’s a difference between a person loving you for the person you really are and a person who sees the worst in you and relentlessly calls it out.”
“I’d put in my time with this machine, and America had raised me to believe that time invested would always pay off. I lost again. I had found myself in the space where the reality of the American Dream collides with the truth that the House Always Wins.” - Excerpt from “The Man Behind the Curtain” memoir essay in CJ Hauser’s collection “The Crane
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Creative work is the intuition. When the intuition flows, creativity flows. And joy is always there.