17/08/2024
| N E W O N M Y B L O G | Courage requires you to feel the fear… and do it anyway!
When I was finally ready to release my Warrior Woman Oracle into the world (it had taken many more moons that I had hoped), I was filled with a mix of sheer relief that I’d finally finished it, and sheer terror!
Like all creative people – and everyone is creative – there is something precious about our little creations that like baby birds we hope will fly out into the world and become fully fledged birds. We forget that those baby birds aren’t always successful on their first jump out of the nest, and they stay fledglings for a while reliant on their parents for protection and food, and others, well their mumma might have to force them out so they can learn to eventually fend for themselves.
What is true, for both baby birds and creatives, is that once they are out in the world, what happens next is out of their creator’s control! For anyone who is a parent, of human kids or fur and feather ones, you will know the familiar pit in your stomach when your child is testing out another milestone or boundary. As they grow in independence we think our kids are going to be less of a worry, but the truth is, we lie awake at night waiting for them to come in the door, or send the text to tell us they are staying at a friend’s place before we can go back to sleep.
It takes courage to take responsibility to guide a child into adulthood, just as it takes courage to guide a creative expression into the world whether it be a song, an artwork, a dance, a book, an invention, a new recipe, or an oracle deck.
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