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she made this for the gays indeed

06-30-22

☠️ Read the rest via the link in my bio. AND: Follow my page at Medium for experimental, soulful, and pleasure-centered writing that gets you thinking and feeling. Happy Friday 💕 • #blackwomenhealing #sacredwisdom #loveofself #queerpoc #selfloveheals #selfloveisimportant #compassionfirst #healingjustice #bethemagic #pleasurerevolution #bipocbookstagram #bipocbooks #nonfictionauthor #nonfictionwriter #bipocauthors #newbookstagram #hannaheko #honeyistheknife #strongblackwoman (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CaIvh73P0qd/?utm_medium=tumblr

RIP to the inimitable Betty Davis. The original queen of rock. Whenever you dub rock n roll “white Boy music” you are doing a HUGE disservice to the originators of rock and blatantly ignoring the work of Black artists like Betty Davis. Betty Davis was out there. In her artful costumes. Inspiring artists from Miles Davis to Jimi Hendrix. She was bold and sexy and talked about BDSM before it was cool. She made her own path. She inspired me so much that I wrote a story about her (and it’s actually getting published 💕💕💕💕) She left the music industry early and became a sort of recluse in her hometown of Pittsburgh for decades. May she rest in perfect peace, power, and pleasure. And may you continue to push artistic and creative boundaries this month and forevermore. Follow that calling deep within, the one that tells you to create from your soul. Leave behind a gorgeous legacy of your truth. 💕 Hannah • • #bettydavis #blackwomenhealing #sacredwisdom #loveofself #queerpoc #selfloveheals #selfloveisimportant #compassionfirst #healingjustice #bethemagic #pleasurerevolution #bipocbookstagram #bipocbooks #nonfictionauthor #hannaheko #honeyistheknife (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZxIOJqvz_a/?utm_medium=tumblr

You gotta have faith, my friend. Faith is not just for the religious or the spiritual or the goody two shoes amongst us. Faith is a skill. Especially for those of us who never feel “enough”. We’re the ones know intellectually we’ve done a lot but rarely feel satiated. We have a sort of OCD of the soul, a deep well spring of uncertainty. Faith isn’t reciting affirmations you don’t believe in. Faith isn’t bombastic visualizations and “staying positive” when we feel anything but. Faith is the skill of taking actions, even small action, towards how we wish to feel. Faith is learning to sit with the discomfort of not knowing if things will work out. Faith is becoming comfortable with being a little bit uncomfortable. Faith is a skill you can build over time: You write even when you don’t feel good enough. You sign up for that pole dance class even if you can’t touch your toes. You go on the date even though you’re nervous as f*ck. And you keep showing up, hard days, good days, in between. And you honor all the times you’ve done things without knowing if it will all work out. There is no failure with faith. So when you can: Feel the discomfort. Know that “enough” does not live outside of yourself. Take one step, one new action, one new thought forward. And celebrate yourself! This sh*t isn’t easy! You don’t need a bucketload of confidence—ever. A little faith goes a long way. I am the empress of doubt AND I live by faith every single day. I practice what I preach. I’ll help you deepen your faith in your writerly purpose. I’ll help turn that sh*tty first draft into a work of art. If you’d like to learn more about what I offer, sign up for my moonletter newsletter. 💋, Hannah • #bookcoach #sacredwisdom #writingcoaching #queerpoc #selfloveheals #honeyistheknife #hannaheko #healingjustice #writingcoach #pleasurerevolution #bipocbookstagram #bookcoaching #nonfictionauthor (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZffI7YvyPs/?utm_medium=tumblr

Someone cares. There is always an audience for your work. There are always clients who want what you are selling. But if you hide, how will they find you? If you try to be like everyone else, how will they know you’re EXACTLY who they want? If you stop going, how will they become deep fans of your work who talk about you to their friends? After undergrad, I wanted nothing more than to be a successful writer. I wanted to write good sh*t. I wanted to inspire and disturb and delight. I’d start a blog. Stop. Start a short story. Stop. Start. Stop. Start. Stop. Writing was excruciating and made me so anxious I’d get anxiety attacks. I stopped because a reverberating voice screamed, “No one cares.” And I believed it. Or sometimes I heard, “The *right* people didn’t care.” And I believed it. If I didn’t receive immediate validation, I stopped. I decided that silence = no one gives a sh*t. I decided my output didn’t matter unless it was lauded on by the “right” authorities. And true: sometimes silence is a teacher. Maybe we do have to refine, revise, and reassess. But refine, revise, and reassess ≠ stop. Write to the people who care, even if the only person who cares is you. Make friends with the silence. Use it to listen deeply. Pause whenever you need to replenish. But please, keep going. I help writers move out of the stop-start-stop cycle into a rhythm that works for them. DM me to learn more about my 1:1 coaching and developmental editing services and let’s get you in flow. 💋, Hannah • #blackwomenhealing #sacredwisdom #loveofself #queerpoc #selfloveheals #selfloveisimportant #compassionfirst #healingjustice #bethemagic #pleasurerevolution #bipocbookstagram #bipocbooks #nonfictionauthor #nonfictionwriter #bipocauthors #newbookstagram #hannaheko #honeyistheknife (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/hannah.eko/p/CZIbZUhPPJ6/?utm_medium=tumblr

No wonder some of us strive to be perfect. No wonder we are afraid to fail. And yet, perfection never protects us from feeling flawed, bad, inferior for long does it? There’s always something we could’ve done or said better. There is no perfect deed that will save us from our fallibility. No perfect piece of writing that will quiet the incessant self-judgment. There is just us and the decision to feel the shame of being imperfect and do the thing anyways. Over and over again. Your fears of imperfection are a survival mechanism and it’s scary for our souls to let go of something that kept us or our people alive. Our world will not be healed by perfection. And your recovery from paralyzing perfectionism will be far from perfect. We will heal from imperfect tries toward a greater good. You will heal by acknowledging the fear and choosing one good enough action inspired by your no f*cks given truth. May you know that the opposite of perfect isn’t bad or terrible. May you know the opposite of perfect is human. If you desire to make 2022 the year you release unhelpful perfectionism off and on the page, see the link in my bio to find out more about my 1:1 coaching and developmental editing practice. ✌🏿 • • #blackwomenhealing #sacredwisdom #loveofself #queerpoc #selfloveheals #honeyistheknife #compassionfirst #healingjustice #bethemagic #pleasurerevolution #bipocbookstagram #bipocbooks #nonfictionauthor #nonfictionwriter #bipocauthors #hannaheko (at Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZBdI8xLF3y/?utm_medium=tumblr