Your Visionary Author Identity

Becoming the Visionary Writer that You ARE.

What are the big fears that Visionary Authors face when we start writing?

Let’s start with the most obvious ones: the fear of the page, the fear of getting it wrong; the fear of success, failure, speaking our truth, becoming visible; the fear of revealing ourselves unconsciously through our writing, or unwittingly revealing what’s in our subconscious for everyone to see; laying ourselves bare, vulnerability…

Many fears can block potential Visionary Writers from becoming the author they are here to be. Becoming the person who’s actually written their book. Did you know that although 81% of people say they want to write a book, only 3% of the people who start writing will ever finish it?

Creative visionaries may unconsciously fear becoming an author, partly because western culture has created such a high ideal for the persona of the author. Our collective idea of what we think an author is and should be usually sits within the realm of the expert, the authority, the isolated genius pouring their heart out onto the page…

And we may see ourselves as being none of those things. It’s easy for imposter syndrome to arise when faced with that disparity (Read more on this here).

When we step into our creative power by writing a book, we recalibrate our internal frequencies with the new words, the new wisdom and the new clarity that is moving through us. When we write a book we bring spirit into form by drawing down the ideas that have been circling around us in an abstract way, and giving them shape and structure through our words, our language, our voice.

By writing your Visionary Book, you crystallise the abstract concepts that you’ve been dancing with, and you give them meaning by placing them into a context that your readers can understand.

That is what Visionary Writers are here for and that’s a great responsibility. You may feel the weight of that responsibility - for yourself and for your readers.

I believe there’s an alchemical realignment that happens when you bring those visions through your body onto the page. When you write a book, you give your thoughts a shape by which they can enter this world from the beyond. You create something new. New material, new possibilities, new realities. And the more people who read your words, the more those new realities will begin to live in the hearts and minds of others who can also help to build and create them.

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This is an immense possibility, an immense sense of purpose and responsibility, and that alone can stifle a Visionary Writer when it comes to completing your book and publishing it out in the world.

We also move through our own internal alchemy when we write a book. The fears that have been keeping us safe and stuck in our previous identity will come to the surface as we write. They need to be seen so that they can be lovingly witnessed, reintegrated and released. By reintegrating parts of ourselves - we don’t need to push them away - we reclaim the power that we’d given to those parts we’ve spent immense amounts of time and energy trying to keep hidden.

Those parts of ourselves will come to the surface as we write our books. They can trick us into believing that we are not the person we thought we were, we are not good enough to write this book. We don’t know as much as we think we should. We don’t deserve to speak our truth and share the wisdom of our voices. Witnessing all those unclaimed parts of ourselves on the page as we write, either in our journalling or in the book as the chapters form, gives us the opportunity to become a compassionate witness to ourselves: and this is where our true power lies.

This is where Visionary Writers can reclaim the truth, the beauty, and the wisdom of who we really are. When we can meet ourselves face-to-face on the page as a witness, all our strength and courage is there.

There is a deep responsibility that we have as Visionary Writers and Creatives to meet ourselves on the page, where we can become the compassionate witness to ourselves and allow our strength to arise from that place. So that we can take responsibility for our purpose, and share our words and wisdom with others. Bringing through those visions that are calling to be created here on earth. Allowing ourselves to be the co-creators that we came here to be.

To become the Visionary Author that we came here to become.

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