Mindfulness Practice

Well, this is awkward. I've been avoiding my own blog. Not deliberately, exactly. Life has just been doing what life does, and somewhere along the way I stopped writing. Then the longer I didn't write, the harder it became to start again. I've opened the blog more than once, stared at the screen and thought, What the hell am I going to write about? And then I've closed it again. Very mindful of me. 😂 And it's not just the blog. My book has been sitting there too. A friend keeps asking me how the writing is going and my answer is usually, "It's not." Then I'll add, "Maybe I'll get to it in December." Which sounds perfectly reasonable when I say it out loud. December is ages away, right? Future Ash can deal with it. Poor future Ash. She has been given a ridiculous amount of responsibility. I think the truth is that I've been feeling a bit like an imposter. Who am I to be writing about mindfulness when I'm still trying to get...

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