I hear you. And I'm listening. When readers sign up for my newsletter, the monthly notebook, I send  a little welcome email. Inside, I ask them to tell me what their superpower is, and what they're working on at the moment. Not everyone replies to the email, of course, but the ones who do have a running theme: I'm stuck in this mental place and I don't know how to get out of it.

I answer as many emails as I can (sometimes it takes me a bit longer than usual), and I'm always thrilled at what wonderful people all of you are...there are professors and chefs and writers and artists and psychics and retirees and manicurists and an honest-to-goodness cowgirl among you. And everyone asks me the same thing: how did you get to be so brave? How do you put it all out there?

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