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resistance & regret - by Isabel - Mind Mine

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holy shit it's hard to sit still these days

Van Gogh’s Smoking Skull There are many ambitions, ideas, threads I would so deeply love to unravel in my mind. But in the past week or so, my Resistance has been more unruly than usual, raging uncontrollably every time I sit down to write. And not just in the loud, obvious, boisterous ways I’m used to facing, but in these stealthy, subtle ways, too. For those unfamiliar with the concept of Resistance, it’s the idea that there is an opposing inner force that keeps us from doing our creative work, or whatever work is most important to us. I was introduced to the concept through Steven…

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