How To Stay Calm
When Grace Bonney invited me to start a regular column for Design*Sponge in 2015, I had no idea that it would go on to shift my career and perspective in such a profound way. We began just as I was starting my own business, and it addressed the new challenges I faced along the way, […]
When Grace Bonney invited me to start a regular column for Design*Sponge in 2015, I had no idea that it would go on to shift my career and perspective in such a profound way. We began just as I was starting my own business, and it addressed the new challenges I faced along the way, from comparing myself to other creatives, to dealing with failure, and helped me recontextualize what I actually “do” in the process. Two years later, selections from this series were published as the book Things Are What You Make of Them. The summer of 2017 was an extremely tense time for me. I felt a kind of anxiety that I hadn’t felt before, and despite knowing plenty of techniques for managing my mental health, it still took my boyfriend saying “WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT"” to snap me into reality. I cried on our couch from the near-constant stress, fear, and anxiety. This was the first step towards moving forward.
I wrote this then, an exercise (like most of my work) in telling myself what I know I need to hear. The draft was abandoned, the book it’s not in was released, and the period of intense anxiety subsided. I married my boyfriend in a bookstore. I we...
When Grace Bonney invited me to start a regular column for Design*Sponge in 2015, I had no idea that it would go on to shift my career and perspective in such a profound way. We began just as I was starting my own business, and it addressed the new challenges I faced along the way, from comparing myself to other creatives, to dealing with failure, and helped me recontextualize what I actually “do” in the process. Two years later, selections from this series were published as the book Things Are What You Make of Them. The summer of 2017 was an extremely tense time for me. I felt a kind of anxiety that I hadn’t felt before, and despite knowing plenty of techniques for managing my mental health, it still took my boyfriend saying “WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT"” to snap me into reality. I cried on our couch from the near-constant stress, fear, and anxiety. This was the first step towards moving forward.
I wrote this then, an exercise (like most of my work) in telling myself what I know I need to hear. The draft was abandoned, the book it’s not in was released, and the period of intense anxiety subsided. I married my boyfriend in a bookstore. I we...
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