What If You've Been Wrong About Yourself This Whole Time?
- 2 days ago
- 2 min read
There's a story a lot of us carry without even realizing it. A quiet, firm little sentence we decided was true somewhere along the way. Mine was: I can't draw.
I said it so many times it stopped feeling like an opinion and started feeling like fact. As a child, that story might have been a kind of protection, a way to step back before anyone else could judge me or laugh. But somewhere between childhood and now, I forgot I was the one who wrote it. And in holding onto it, I had quietly shut off a whole part of myself.
This month, inside our community, we were exploring curiosity over perfection. The practice of trying something, then getting genuinely curious about what you made and how it felt, without rushing to judge it. It sounds simple. It's actually radical.
Because most of us have been trained to evaluate before we've even finished. To compare, critique, and conclude. And those conclusions, especially the ones we made as children, have a way of following us into adulthood and quietly limiting who we think we're allowed to be.
So I decided to experiment. As someone who works almost entirely in the abstract, I tried to draw and paint things that actually looked like something. Real shapes. Recognizable forms. All the things I'd told myself I couldn't do.
And here's what I found on the other side of that: not mastery, not a dramatic breakthrough, but an opening. A small, quiet sense of oh, maybe I've been wrong about this.
That's what curiosity does. It doesn't demand that you be good at something. It just asks you to stay a little longer before you decide.
The more we can accept and embrace ourselves as we actually are, the more confident we become, and the better we show up for ourselves, our families, and the world around us. That's the ripple effect I'm here to nurture. The slow, gentle fading of that quiet suffering so many of us carry, so we can all just... feel good.
If you've been holding onto a story about yourself that might not be true anymore, I'd gently invite you to get a little curious about it. You might be surprised what's waiting on the other side.
Ready to explore creativity as a path back to yourself? Come join us inside the Wild Within membership, a community of women using creative practice to release stress, reconnect with who they are, and feel genuinely good again.
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