“ …and then I realised “hold up, the average person probably doesn’t spend their time practicing conversations, observing others to figure out the ‘right’ time to smile, and completely forgetting that other people exist if they are not RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU”.
Read MoreAs someone who has struggled to feel like a whole person throughout my life - like a collection of fragments trying to piece itself together - this philosophy spoke to my heart.
Read MoreWho knew all it took was massive crisis - a pandemic, a total collapse of career - to set the record straight. Had to burn the whole forest down to make way for new growth.
Read More… this self-esteem I’d found in looking to my body for answers was as fragile as the body it relied on to exist.
Read MoreThere’s an issue that I think I’ve been aware of for years, but really just aware of in a peripheral way; nameless, formless, but I could feel it there at all times. It’s followed me for as long as I can remember, and I’ve been thinking lately that if I don’t address it soon, it will come to define me. So here I go.
Read MoreMaybe it’s that I’m older now. Maybe it’s that I’ve done the LA thing. Maybe it’s that I realised how horrifically unhealthy the music industry is it is, only after being damaged - and realising that maybe some things aren’t worth killing yourself over.
Read MoreI’ve had this nagging agitation a lot recently, a frustration I couldn’t quite put my finger on, but it only struck me once I had this realisation a couple of weeks ago: I’ve been on my journey to release new music for 18 months, and I’ve managed to stretch out what should have taken only 3/4 months into a year and a half. How did that happen? And more importantly, why?
Read MoreSo, on the verge of completely giving up, I wrote a song. I wrote, and I cried, and I just gave up my ideas of how I wanted things to be.
Read MoreI see so many people - friends and acquaintances, news reporters and celebrities - 'standing' in solidarity with particular events and peoples, but not others. What does this say about us and the way we see the world we live in?
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