Your voice doesn’t need to be universal, perfect, or objectively “right” to matter. You are not here to articulate grand, all-encompassing truths. You are here to express your truth — the deeply subjective, cellular, messy experience of being alive — and in doing so, you allow nature, evolution, and life itself to speak through you.

You feel it: the pull to create something original, to teach from lived experience, and speak in a voice that feels like your own. That instinct is the beginning of a body of work. The problem is we tend to imagine a body of work as something we build after we’ve become who we’re meant to be. We mistake it for proof of arrival—when in truth, it’s how we get there. 

Avoidance wears many spiritual disguises. I have so much grace for the early phase, when your nervous system is catching up, when you’re still building the inner scaffolding and it’s truly not time yet. But there’s a point when “not yet” becomes “never,” and when you’re not actually waiting anymore… you’re avoiding.