Consider this an unofficial post; an interlude, perhaps.
I’ve been MIA for awhile, as I’m sure you’ve noticed. (Well, maybe you didn’t notice. That’s okay too.) Between planning our wedding, the actually getting married, going on our honeymoon, and then navigating the post-wedding blues—which are real, by the way—it’s safe to say I’ve been pretty caught up these past four months. But now that my life has resumed to a much more normal state, I finally feel like I’m in a place where I can start dedicating some more time to this Substack again.
I don’t know about you, but I find coming back to something after leaving it for a long time (especially when it’s a thing that other people see) to be very difficult. It almost feels like starting over, and when that’s the case, I fall into the perfectionism trap. I’ve once again convinced myself that my first (or in this case, first-in-a-while) post needs to be profound and perfect or it isn’t worth posting it at all. I know what you’re thinking—that simply isn’t true. I know this, you know this, but that won’t stop my brain from believing it.
So here I am, ripping off the band-aid, making my return to this platform known so that I can hopefully circumvent some of my fears about my first-in-a-while post being a total flop. This one is a nothing burger by design.
I do, however, have a handful of posts in the works that I’m in the process of developing, and plan to share them here soon.
Until then,
Hannah