Loving others and being loved is arguably the most challenging and rewarding gift of life. If we are lucky enough to find romantic love, the experience can lead us to profound feelings of connection and can both heal and sustain us in ways that no other relationship can match.

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Balancing Self-Compassion and Hard Work

I saw this great 2 minute video of a talk by Ira Glass, host and producer of the NPR show This American Life, about doing creative work recently. It really hit home with me, and living in Asheville, where there is such an abundance of creative people, I thought I would share his words of wisdom with this community!

Personally, I feel that any work that you do that you feel passionately about is creative work. We can approach any craft with vigor and ambition, whether it is producing purely for artistic expression, or working on building skill at our chosen profession.

His normalizing of the ups, downs, and curves in the road on the journey of improvement is refreshing and reassuring, my favorite aspect of this talk is his promotion of self compassion along the way!

Sharing is Generous. Thank You!