Uh oh, fear and scarcity have closed in like a thick mist.

So, I’ve had a busy few months focused on joy. I’ve created The Joy Project and have created three Intentional Art-Making courses. Woohoo! This week I started sharing The Joy Project on Instagram. I haven’t really been on social media for a long time because I know it can so easily make me doubt what I’m doing and always makes me feel like I should be doing more!

And predictably, being back on social media is feeling like a struggle!

It has devoured my mental energy… trying to make sure I’ve got the right hashtags, am posting at the right time, am posting the right sort of content… blah blah blah!

I feel like social media is necessary. It’s the most effective way to connect with people (isn’t it?! Other ideas welcome). But feeling like you have to jump through hoops for Instagram to show your content to the poeple you want to share it with doesn’t feel terribly joyful. Ha! In fact it’s pretty overwhelming.

I want to connect with people and to share the joyful things I’ve created, because I want everyone to feel more joy and bring more light into the world!

I want to get it right, I want to create inspiring and useful content.

I want to build a community of intentional art-makers, of life artists.

I feel like it’s an up-mountain struggle against the algorithms and it’s all a bit pointless because I’m too small for Instagram to share what I’m doing anyway! And, I worry about bombarding the wonders who are already here with me!

Yesterday I realized I had slipped into fear and scarcity. And that’s not where I want to be.

So, here are some things that I am going to do to tip me back into sufficiency and trust…

Painting

Create a painting alongside my social media sharing that intentionally calls in sufficiency in trust

Embody My Multidimensional Self

Practice dropping into the future me who already has 100 people in The Joy Project by connecting to my multidimensional self… I am all versions of me that exist in the present moment. I want to connect to the version of me that is already where I desire to be. To embody that energy and feel it in my present reality.

HeartMath

Practice HeartMath heart focused breathing every day for self-regulation.

Make Space

Schedule my days with the space to begin the day in a nourishing way and wind down properly at the end of the day.

Get Curious About My Goals

Look at what goals I am setting for myself and get curious about how I could do things differently that would feel more joyful and nourishing.

Breathwork

Breathwork... I've just started a breathwork practice with the lovely Kathy Bell. Woohoo!

The pressures to play the social media game (learning how to create the right kinds of posts and reels that Instagram favours and will share, posting the 'correct' number of times a day/week...) feel so unaligned with what The Joy Project is about and it's hard not to feel hypocritical as I slip into self-doubt and overwhelm.

But then that's why I created The Joy Project and my intentional art-making courses in the first place... to guide people to use intentional art-making to move from fear and scarcity to sufficiency and trust.

And this is the perfect opportunity for me to practice what I preach!

The next time you find yourself surrounded in a thick mist of fear and scarcity what will you do to bring yourself back into trust and sufficiency?