Take Two and Call Me in the Morning: 10 Quotes for Creatives by Symptom to End the Year 2020 Healthy

2020 has been the kind of year that you will tuck inside a box in the side corner of an attic, on top of your most coveted (or eroded) journal, that's locked with a combination you either can or will never remember. Regardless of how you felt about it, the year has cause serious inconveniences in every aspect of our lives. As I reflected on the year, feelings of being an imposter seeped through where I didn't know I stuffed it...anxiety lingered and I needed a quick meditation session (and Calavados) to help me realize the real truth. Since I can't be there with you today to help with either one of those solutions, I put together a list of inspiration I hope will help. Here are 10 quotes, by symptom of what you might be going through, to end the year on a healthy and buoyant note. Let me know which one you gravitate toward the most. Enjoy and Happy New Year.

1. Imposter Syndrome:
"Think of the most attractive person you know, even that person at some point, as had raging diarrhea." -Pop Sugar

2. Anxiety from Changing Jobs:
"Sometimes it's not what you know, but what you feel that takes over. And that’s ok." -Donny

3. Stress finding Another Job:
"Take on a 30 day challenge until you find your perfect job." (not a quote, just the best advice from a friend)

4. Loneliness:
"Be the thunder….lightn' then the thunder." (be the spark in someone else's life) - Imagine Dragons
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5. Stuck: You can't create originality, it's something that happens to you.- Tyese Cooper

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6. Fear of the Blank Canvas:
​"Maybe art tools should have expiration dates on them." -Tyese Cooper

7. Perfectionism:
"To live is to be willing to die over and over again."-Pema Chodron

8. Solo Syndrome where you feel have the do everything yourself:
​"A hug to yourself is a drug."-Unknown

9. Doubt Over Covid Vaccine:
"Artists are people who have learned to live with doubt and do the work anyway." - Julia Cameron 

​10. Worried Getting To Close at a Dinner Party:
​"Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion, and on the proper occasions." -Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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