21. Medicine + the Mountain (What 25 years of poetry has taught me about letting go of performing)

Medicine + the Mountain: What 25 Years of Poetry Taught Me About Letting Go of Performing

Come with me into one of the most tender drops I've ever recorded.

I open up about my Achilles heel, the performative mode I slip into without noticing, the trying-too-hard that's actually what keeps me stuck, and how finding my college poetry journal, and 25 years of poems I've written to my husband Johnny, cracked something open I didn't know was still waiting.

Inside this one, you'll hear:

• The honest confession of what it looks like when caring so much becomes the very thing blocking you, and the moment my husband Johnny named it back to me in a way I couldn't unhear.
• Why I stopped waiting to "do it the right way" and just published my new poem, Medicine + the Mountain, the same day I wrote it — no overthinking, no perfect sequence, no permission slip from anyone but myself.
• The mountain metaphor that reframes every goal I've ever climbed toward: the gold was never at the summit. It was inside me the whole climb. And I'd climb it again anyway, because the climbing is the whole damn point.
• What it actually means to come back to the truest version of yourself, the one from before life added all the layers, and expand from there instead of trying to become someone new.
• A real-time example of radical self permission: deciding, in an instant, without waiting for my ego to finish its checklist.

By the end, you'll have permission to stop performing your own life and start sharing it exactly as messy and unfinished as it is, because that's where the actual magic has been the whole time.

I can't wait for you to listen.

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