7. Your Art Is Your First Love. Will You Nurture It?

When we think about relationships, we inherently know the basics of how to keep them alive: provide attention, communication, growth, care, and love (to name a few). What if I told you there is a relationship between you and your craft, and there's a great chance the reason you feel so far away from it is that you aren't nurturing that relationship? It's become a burden, nagging you for not showing up for it. Your guilt is manifested in neglect because you can't bare to face the truth: you're scared to disappoint it. You know you're not putting in work. Shit, maybe you don't know how. You show up for other people, places, and things while your art is begging you to love and see it. Appreciate it, but not half-heartedly? In this episode, I discuss a moment that brought me to this realization, and how this realization is shaping how I not only see my art as a lover/child, but how important it is to show up for it and what it expects of me. music by JustDanBeats