What is Your Credo?
MY CREDO Teresa Proudlove Nov 28, 2022
A direct answer to my prayer for guidance about blog/writing mire:
“I am not responsible for other people’s triggers,” spoken by a wise friend.
If I try to write in a way that avoids other people being triggered, I’ll never be honest or authentic. I’ll be writing and rewriting as I did with the last 2 articles.
“If you are honest and tell the truth you have something to say. You can be a writer!”
How can I be a writer, writing truthfully and honestly, if I am diluting my truth - my reality - to prevent pain in others and to protect myself from their judgments?
Impossible.
It won’t be me. It will not be my writing. It will not be my truth.
It will be a phony rainbow-colored cloak showing what other’s want and expect.
A Pretense.
Something I’ve done all my life …in relationships…in work…and now with my one true, real love – my writing.
A pretty, acceptable garment cloaking what is real, true, and fiercely beautiful.
All this long life I have been mistaken... thinking protecting them… pleasing them…would protect me. It does not protect me. It hurts me.
It diminishes me.
It steals my full expression. It kills my creativity and confidence.
It steals my joy!
Protect yourself Teresa!
Speak, write your truth – HEAD HIGH –
Protect your creativity against your own propensity to shape-shift to suit/appease/please others. KNOW you have the strength to withstand the naysayers in the world.
You have the strength and WILL to protect yourself. Their words, judgements, accusations, triggers are not your responsibility.
Your responsibility is to protect and cherish your precious, God given gift of introspection, writing and full self expression.
Trust: You know your path.
You know the Astounding Beauty of Who You Are.
You know you have Value and Wisdom that others want and need to hear.
Trust, they will find you…. when you find the courage to be fully, unapologetically YOU.
You know YOU MUST SHARE YOUR GIFT.
You will NEVER PLEASE all your family, friends, the world (or your inner critic!) but you are NOT in service to them.
You are in service to God and to this demanding, unshakeable gift of writing and self expression.
You must write your truth.
You must be honest and true to yourself, to your word, and to your God.
