How Learning to Let Go, Allowed Everything to Click Into Place

For years I’ve struggled with feeling like a “jack of all trades”, I worried for such a long time that I would never be an expert enough at something to do it well or be successful. SO often I pushed away different parts of me in favor of other’s so I could learn and be better.

It’s only been the last year or two that I’ve really stopped pushing so hard against it all. Why, you ask? I don’t know. I’ve been so focused on my mental health journey and on my son, that pushing and pulling my creative sides away became less important and because of that I’ve learned something.

I can allow all of it, and it all fits.

I can do all of this, all together and one doesn’t become more important than the other.

They are each sides of me and if I push one away then I feel lost, like there’s battle that doesn’t need to be fought but is raging anyways. It all works together, a well churned machine not that I’ve stopped fighting.

Sure, some weeks I do more photography than poetry and other weeks I have the urge to write fiction instead of blog. But I don’t fight against that anymore like I used to.

I let it all in, I let go and just literally go with he flow of my creative work and allow what calls to me to be what I do. I honestly didn’t even realize this was all happening until recently when I was working on a new project (that you’ll see soon! I’m so excited!). In the past, I would have felt guilty for working on this project, for switching focus and I would have felt like I had to continue down this path and create this type of thing over and over again or…what would be the point?

The point is that it’s a part of me and just because I’m using a different medium to tell my story, doesn’t mean that my story isn’t still present in the work. I feel so free with this realization.

Share: Are you a multi-faceted creator? How have you learned to allow it all in?