My first book came out smack in the middle of the pandemic. The one thing I have always wanted, happened: to hear from readers that they had a good time reading my book. But it’s been odd to see my one true ambition come true. Because the next step in my world domination plan was to sit and write more books. In the months that followed, I did work on new books. But every time I sat down to write, I was filled with a feeling I didn’t recognise and found it hard to continue. I couldn’t stop thinking about work, but I just couldn’t focus. >
Then, my dancer-turned-expressive arts-therapist friend Brinda Jacob-Janvrin used the word ‘expansiveness’—the idea of taking as much time and space as something needs and deserves—when talking about what many of her female clients were searching for over the last year. Something shifted inside me. I understood that despite my great enjoyment of writing, despite my gratitude for having it as a source of pleasure and income, for a long time, writing has also been another item on my ‘getting things done’ list. And despite other jobs, family illnesses and two toddlers, I’ve got it done. Even in 2020, I wrote. But now, in year two of COVID-19, every time I sat down to write, one voice was drowning out everything else: “Why isn’t this done already?”
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