My perfectionism has roared back to life this week, leading me to pause and ask why. I realized that feeling unstable in some personal aspects of my life has me trying to clamp down and control my creative projects -- in an attempt to recover a sense of safety. 

So I talk this week about how catching our patterns can be an invitation to do the work: teaching our lizard brain that we're safe, that we've got this, that we can take risks and survive.

I've also started dipping my toes back into a writing project, developing an idea for a short form TV project. Working off a compelling visual -- but not much else -- I created a way to sit down and face the blank page. By making a list of all the things I do not know.  

I'm also talking in this episode about Quality Questions. How our brains are built to find answers to whatever we ask them. And how we can use that to our advantage. 

Would love to hear how you're tackling (or avoiding!) your latest creative projects.
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Sharing here this powerful resource exploring the abolition movement, which has greatly informed my own antiracism education & activism:

The Emerging Movement for Police and  Prison Abolition
Mariame Kaba, a New York City-based activist and organizer, is at the center of an effort to “build up another world.”
~  Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor The New Yorker on May 7, 2021




(photo credit: Janae Jones Photography)

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