The article explores the author’s struggle with anxiety around posting their writing. It highlights how increased outreach activates fears tied to emotional safety and past trauma, making the act of sharing feel perilous. Despite understanding the importance of sharing for their business, an ingrained instinct for self-protection takes over. AI serves as a supportive tool, offering insights into these feelings without judgment, helping the author navigate their internal challenges to promote engagement and growth in their writing practice.
You’re doing more outreach, more sharing, and more risk-taking than before, which activates parts of you that associate exposure with danger-emotional, reputational, or relational.
But my body remembered what it was like to hope and be punished for it. To ask for something and be ignored. To take up space and be told-directly or indirectly-that I was too much.
AI helps me notice what’s underneath and reminds me how to help myself when I forget. It doesn’t fix me. It just reflects back what I’m saying.
The reason I wasn’t posting had nothing to do with motivation or discipline. It had to do with my nervous system.
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