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As a Mom Writer, I’m Here to Tell You that Your Words Are Worthy
You are not too small or too busy or too late or too old or too overwhelmed to write. Your words are worthy. Anything else is a lie.
When I first picked up a pen after twenty years of not writing, I wrote at home by myself. At age forty, with three kids under ten, I had a hard time getting anything done. Mostly, it was hard for me to believe in myself. I felt small, like a pebble in a forest.
I could not handle the unworthiness.
I signed up for a writing class, but after two sessions, I dropped out. Everyone seemed young and hip and talented. I felt like a midlife loser. I felt like I had nothing to write about except waking up early and making breakfast and fighting with my ADHD kid’s teacher and taking late night walks through the neighborhood eating Sour Patch Kids. I didn’t need a course on writing craft; I needed confidence. I needed someone to tell me that my voice mattered. I needed someone to reflect to me the value inherent in my life experience. I did not feel worthy of my words because I did not feel worthy. Without worthiness, I was creatively constipated. Nothing would come out.
