Carrie Baker – The Growth Collective

As I sit here to write this blog post (the first one in so many months!), I feel the bumping in my rib cage as my heart nervously flutters.

I am standing on the precipice at the edge of something new and it feels like the hardest thing I have done in a long time. I know that when I press ‘Publish’ and this post goes out into the ether, I know that I will have set things in motion that I will need to keep going with.

When I say it out loud, this thing in my heart, it doesn’t sound like a big deal. But for me, it really is. It’s time for me to step out of the shadows of doubtful self talk and bring it into the light.

I have written many things, most of which I haven’t posted and definitely not published. I’ve begun and abandoned many writing ideas. But this one… This one is different.

What I am currently working on sits strangely inside me, eager to be let loose. It feels like a pregnancy, which explains all those weird pregnancy dreams I had a year ago!

I sat with a friend over coffee this morning. We had some incredible conversations about many things, that at times had my eyes leaking a little. It was sitting with a fellow creative that did it, someone who ‘got’ me, who, when I left her I felt encouraged and brave.

So before this bravery leaves me, I begin. I step off the precipice and into the unknown. I announce my ‘pregnancy’ to you, of this book that I am writing. A book that I hope will encourage and empower people to find joy and share it with the world.

Now that I have shared the dream I carry in my heart, to write this book that feels important, I am accountable to you to finish.

We weren’t created to do life alone or as a small family unit, but within a village, a community of people. Will you take my hand, and come with me? Will you be my village and encourage me when it gets hard?

There is an African proverb that I love;

“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together”.

Come with me, as we feel the fear and jump anyway. There are dreams in us that we need to share with the world.

Is it time for you to step off the precipice? Take my hand, we will do it together…

Thank you for stopping by, it was lovely to spend time with you.

Carrie xxx