Incubating...
For years, I was consumed with doubt, which for too long kept me from making music, my love. Our new record is dying to meet you. I’ve been taking my time with its final stages and have expanded beyond music to get it out in the world (secrets are fun). It’s been incubating since 2018 and has been the hardest journey of my life to trust my deepest inner knowing—an inner knowing we all have and too often ignore. We think hiding will make us safe, but when we don’t let ourselves out and be fully seen we teach others to do the same. And we end up a bunch of scared children, threatened and provoked by someone who dares to be exposed in the face of our judgement and criticism. We end up making choices based on external forces, not the internal, and betray ourselves and our soul’s yearning. What choice enlarges you, and what choice diminishes you? What feeds your soul? You know the answer. I want to help build a world in which everyone can follow that soulful impulse, to bring their soul’s unique medicine to the world, where there is no external obstacle—racism, bigotry, poverty, lack of medical care, education, and other resources. We all must face something else—the inner obstacle—fear. Fear of disappointing, fear of embarrassment, fear of looking a fool. Being seen as we are is something I have admired in other artists and leaders for decades, and making music began my path of shedding all my masks gradually over time. I don’t think the shedding ever stops. What do you need to follow your inner impulse? What is in your way? I want to help build a community where we can meet each other in this way, help each other be our biggest selves, following what we are here to do, expressive, impactful, and generative. As we are within, so we are without. And this world needs it, needs us, needs this root of Love blooming in all of us. It only takes one person allowing themselves to be fully seen to awaken it in someone else. If it were not for @thisispattismith I don’t think I would have been brave enough to make my first record. Now 3 albums later, she is still my awakener. Who is your awakener? : @heatherevanssmith