Returning to the podcast in 2022, with my own outsized expectations - that got neatly destroyed by a Covid infection and weeks of recovery - has me thinking deeply about who do we actually want to be this year?

New Year, New You is brilliant marketing that shames us into thinking we need to be wholly different versions of ourselves on January 1st, in order to be worthy.

I say f*ck you to January expectations.

I say, if you're still standing, after two years of this pandemic, after the chronic anxiety, the isolation, the exhaustion, all the cancelled plans, abandoned travels, lost jobs, lost opportunities, lost friends and loved ones -- if you are still standing (or hell, sitting) in 2022 -- then Huzzah. You win.

No apologies for what it took to make it through 2021. 

Let's instead look at how waiting for version 2.0 of you is keeping you from showing up in your life -- and in your creative practices - right now.
 
Let's figure out how to human in this world, in this moment in time.
Rather than waiting for everything to be better -- for us to be better -- so that we can find joy and connection and make art. 

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If you're struggling with making time or space for your creative practice, I hear you. I'd love to connect. Come find me on Instagram @SamGarlandNYC.


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