If you’ve ever auditioned before, or if you’ve ever published, posted, or shared your art in public, you know the feeling. The feeling after the show or presentation when you want to stick your head in a dirt hole for the rest of the day and hide your face from the entire universe.
Brene Brown would call this a vulnerability hangover.
If you’ve never had one, then either you aren’t making, or you aren’t sharing.
Maybe both.
If you have had one before, or if you’re having one for the first time, you should know that feeling this way is completely okay.
Feeling this way is completely normal.
Feeling this way is actually a good sign.
Sharing your art, being vulnerable in front of a crowd, this is risky, scary work that requires full commitment of self.
After you’ve shared, feel free to stay in the hole for the rest of the day if you need.
When today is over and tomorrow comes (and trust me, it will)
Then it’s time to pull your head out of the hole...
Rinse...
And repeat.
Brene Brown would call this a vulnerability hangover.
If you’ve never had one, then either you aren’t making, or you aren’t sharing.
Maybe both.
If you have had one before, or if you’re having one for the first time, you should know that feeling this way is completely okay.
Feeling this way is completely normal.
Feeling this way is actually a good sign.
Sharing your art, being vulnerable in front of a crowd, this is risky, scary work that requires full commitment of self.
After you’ve shared, feel free to stay in the hole for the rest of the day if you need.
When today is over and tomorrow comes (and trust me, it will)
Then it’s time to pull your head out of the hole...
Rinse...
And repeat.
