Wednesday, April 8, 2015

tea kettle on the stove

Hello there, friend,

I've been living with this word, fearless, for more than three months now. I'm not always sure what it means for me, or that I'm even all that deeply connected to it. But sometimes I have moments where I am drawn in by fear. What I'm learning is to lean in to the fear, to feel it fully, and to ask myself why I feel it. What is the resistance I'm feeling?

I get a lot of different answers, and I'm trying to take a close look at them as they come. Fear is one of those things -- we all feel it, but what is it doing for us? I'm trying to embrace the fear and choose to be fearless anyway, not all the time, but when I know in my gut that the fear isn't serving me.

Yesterday I signed up for an online photography class, even though I was ready to talk myself out of it because of fear. I'm afraid our house search will be crazy at when I'm taking the class, that I'll lose money, that I won't be good enough and make a fool out of myself. There are a million reasons not to do something. But I want to learn and grow as a photographer. I want that push to the next level. So, I took the leap. Let's see how this goes.

xo,
L