Living and Creating in Uncertain Times

What to Do When Fear Says Stop but Your Soul Says Go

I know the pattern of freezing up when scary things are happening. It’s the story of my life, and my greatest achievement is really learning how to overcome it.

Not that I don’t still do it. I spent most of the day in bed yesterday wrestling alligators of despair over the gleeful giggling photos of people cheering for Alligator Alcatraz, which is really Alligator Auschwitz to be clear.

Something happens to us when the future feels uncertain and we feel powerless to effect change. Our hearts take a punch when we see and hear so many messages of craven people loudly announcing their joy in bringing misery, pain, and even torturous death to others.

We tighten up and close down. Why wouldn’t we? It’s normal af.

Not just in our bodies, but in our thoughts, in our energy, in the way we hold ourselves back from possibility. So many times lately, my literal breath feels snatched away as if our entire country has become filled with Dementors.

We shrink down, play it safe, and start making decisions from fear instead of clarity.

I’m seeing this everywhere right now:

✨ Brilliant people turning away from opportunities to grow and expand.

✨ Entrepreneurs hesitating when they could be building, leading, and investing.

✨ Makers shelving their work because “it’s not the right time.”

✨ Writers wondering why write my book when the world is on fire and no one cares?

But here’s what breaks my heart the most:

The exact moment when your creativity is needed the most—when your voice could change something—is the moment most people go silent.

Creative life-force energy is THE most powerful force on the planet. It shines through our Hearts when we are in flow.

Uncertainty isn’t the problem. It’s a portal we can choose to walk through.

In my 30+ years working with creative minds, leaders, and intuitives, I’ve learned this:

Uncertainty doesn’t block your creative power.

It amplifies it.

But only if you know how to work with it instead of shutting down. Only if you refuse to fall into your Familiar Bad Feeling Place and stay there with your bag of tortilla chips and half-gallon jug of salsa.

Most people try to navigate uncertainty from their Mind, and the Mind hates the unknown.

Mind wants (and never gets):

🔒 A step-by-step plan and a clear end goal

🔒 Guarantees

🔒 Safety nets

🔒 Proof and a better mood before action

But your genius lives outside that box and is best accessed through body awareness.

Your genius thrives in the Mystery.

It makes connections you can’t see yet.

It opens doors logic hasn’t even imagined.

It builds futures that your fear and the news say are impossible.

The real question is this:

Do you know how to access your deeper wisdom when it matters most? Like right now, when terror and despair are seeking to drown us?

Because when you wake up to where you are, you can decide where to go. Sovereignty comes with awareness, and that’s what changes everything.

That’s what lets you keep creating work that resonates, uplifts, and rallies people’s strengths.

That’s what lets you speak when the world needs your voice.

That’s what lets you move forward—even when the path isn’t clear, even when it’s littered with shattered glass.

I know the way back to Awareness. Come write with me.

If you’ve been feeling stuck, hesitant, or creatively blocked, I’m hosting a free event to help you move through that freeze and back into flow.

Put the chips down, wipe your greasy, salty paws off, and go register for this.

The Art of Somatic Journaling: A Body-Based Practice to Finally Stop Procrastinating Without Forcing Yourself or Feeling Like a Failure.

We’ll use somatic tools and journaling prompts to help you reconnect with your body’s wisdom and create from a place of grounded clarity (not panic or perfectionism).

After you register, watch for an email from me with the Facebook pop-up group link.

Let’s tap into the creative life-force energy waiting inside you because we can’t afford to freeze up and flop down. There is too much need for bright energy in the world - you have it - now shine it!

XO,
LMW

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