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Shruthi Vidhya Sundaram's avatar

This literally felt like reading a mirror! I was the same! Wrote stories. Read shit ton of books (so much to the point that my parents didn't know what else to give me). Could read before I spoke. But somewhere they had vanished. Tried to fit into a box. And it was only last year that the box fully shattered and crumbled. You know? I am a deeply creative, artistic, whimsical, loving deep connections person!! And I love sharing my experiences and stories!!

GWEN YI's avatar

I feel like Substack is such a special gathering place for souls like us!! Thanks for sharing this with me. ♥️♥️🥹 here’s to our continued creative evolution!!

GWEN YI's avatar

Comments are open to all subscribers, paid or free, so come say hi! I have been slowly rebuilding my creative practice here and I have so much more to share with you. ♥️

What is your relationship to potential? Are you also guilty of going with the flow, being too afraid to embrace what is at your core? No shame here, we are all human. Rooting for you friend!

Wendy Vaz's avatar

Very similar to you, I grew up being the kid with so much potential. So much so that when I told my high school teacher told me she thought I’d be pursuing broadcasting or mass comm, I scoffed and thought “what a waste of my potential” (I was academically gifted). But guess who ended up turning a big circle back to content and media creation so many years later? 🤣

I’m looking forward to get to know more of the real you in this new season of your content Gwen, love this for you! 🧡🧡🧡

GWEN YI's avatar

HAHAHA OMG WORD FOR WORD. I wanted to go into mass comm too!! Much to the chagrin of all my teachers who knew I was academically gifted 😂 thanks for this reminder, another part of me that needs to be unshamed as I embark on this journey more seriously. Thanks for sharing love, appreciate you!

Luana's avatar

Wow thank you for this beautiful post, you are such an inspiration Gwen 💕

I feel similarly ( mutable chart here, too) and in the past couple of months life has thrown me a lot of curveballs for me to listen. I had to take myself out of the box, too and I am slowly rebuilding my life and business. One thing I realized is that I don’t want to box myself anymore into 1 thing ( astrologer box here, too) but I want to live life and keep building my business on my way, the why that made me live my hometown at 19 years old and the why that helped me write a book, podcast and all which is guiding people back home so that they can live a life up to their dreams as I call it, their most authentic life ✨

GWEN YI's avatar

♥️♥️♥️ you can do it Luana, I believe in you! Thank you for reading and being on this journey with me.

Luana's avatar

Thank you for your support and your vulnerability 💕