Honestly Yas you are a constant source of validation for so many things in my being! I feel the same and I'm finding it harder and harder to be online when I need to be writing. I also have a similar relationship with it in that everything I've used and cultivated it for is activism, community building, advocacy for displaced people, mobilising, fundraising, event hosting etc., so I also feel the need to push back as it's a tool that can and is used for vital, necessary things. AND also, it has got louder and louder, harder and harder to just dip in and out of. There's less ease and so much chaos, and how is that conducive to coming away from to then write when it leaves your head and heart full with so much?! I just launched my Substack last week which I think might help me be less online social media and a shift this way. The energy is so much better suited here. I actually referenced one of your substack posts in my first post about the internet home and this feeling like my new one! So thank you <3 Enjoy NY, and sending lots of love to you always xxx
Congratulations on your Substack! So glad this resonates, I think so many of us are grasping with the changes to these online homes that we don’t want to accept in a way… well, I definitely am. Hope you enjoy writing here, and hope you are being tender with yourself xxx
I never write comments! But I read this on my morning commute and it perfectly encapsulated a feeling I’ve been grappling with and my own creativity. Thank you xx
This brings me such joy - welcome to the comments section! Thank you so much... and I am so pleased to hear this resonated. Hope your creativity is flowing... Yx
I really appreciate how you're able to dive into these emotions and explore them so articulately and just hold space here for yourself. Without needing to judge it, label it, compare it etc, and just hold it and examine it. I really enjoyed reading it. Thank you! -- Abdul Wasey
Oh, this is such a wonderful compliment. Thanks so much - what you describe is how I try to use this space. As a way to think aloud, and invite others to do so alongside me. Yx
Honestly Yas you are a constant source of validation for so many things in my being! I feel the same and I'm finding it harder and harder to be online when I need to be writing. I also have a similar relationship with it in that everything I've used and cultivated it for is activism, community building, advocacy for displaced people, mobilising, fundraising, event hosting etc., so I also feel the need to push back as it's a tool that can and is used for vital, necessary things. AND also, it has got louder and louder, harder and harder to just dip in and out of. There's less ease and so much chaos, and how is that conducive to coming away from to then write when it leaves your head and heart full with so much?! I just launched my Substack last week which I think might help me be less online social media and a shift this way. The energy is so much better suited here. I actually referenced one of your substack posts in my first post about the internet home and this feeling like my new one! So thank you <3 Enjoy NY, and sending lots of love to you always xxx
Congratulations on your Substack! So glad this resonates, I think so many of us are grasping with the changes to these online homes that we don’t want to accept in a way… well, I definitely am. Hope you enjoy writing here, and hope you are being tender with yourself xxx
I never write comments! But I read this on my morning commute and it perfectly encapsulated a feeling I’ve been grappling with and my own creativity. Thank you xx
This brings me such joy - welcome to the comments section! Thank you so much... and I am so pleased to hear this resonated. Hope your creativity is flowing... Yx
I really appreciate how you're able to dive into these emotions and explore them so articulately and just hold space here for yourself. Without needing to judge it, label it, compare it etc, and just hold it and examine it. I really enjoyed reading it. Thank you! -- Abdul Wasey
Oh, this is such a wonderful compliment. Thanks so much - what you describe is how I try to use this space. As a way to think aloud, and invite others to do so alongside me. Yx