Good Aural -The Audiobook Podcast
May 20, 2026 · 14 min · 13 segments
This week, I’m talking about the emotional side of creative work that I think a lot of artists quietly carry around but rarely say out loud. The weird shame spiral that happens after a bad review, an…
But emotionally, it suddenly feels super loaded now, because now opening the planner means I have to look back at all the pages that are blank that remind me that I wasn't functioning the way I wanted to, that I dropped my routines, and that life got messy.
I have to see them every time I open my planner now, that proof that I stopped showing up consistently for a little while.
And I feel a lot of, like, guilt and, and shame associated with that, and I think that feeling is something artists experience constantly.
But emotionally, it suddenly feels super loaded now, because now opening the planner means I have to look back at all the pages that are blank that remind me that I wasn't functioning the way I wanted to, that I dropped my routines, and that life got messy.
I have to see them every time I open my planner now, that proof that I stopped showing up consistently for a little while.
And I feel a lot of, like, guilt and, and shame associated with that, and I think that feeling is something artists experience constantly.
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