Just accepting that vulnerability is part of the deal, I think, makes that part okay.

There's always something that happens where I go, 'Oh, that was so awkward!'

If you're in a painful place, be there, feel it, but don't stay stuck there. Do what you've got to do to get out of there. And if you're in a really joyful place, believe that that's not going to last either.

All things must end, and they do! You're only stuck in a place if you choose to stay stuck there.

Just accepting that vulnerability is part of the deal, I think, makes that part okay.

I am lucky in that my children are grown, my youngest is twenty-seven. I didn't have the conflict between artist and mother while they were young because I really focused in, very much, on the mothering aspect.

Be true. Be as true and honest with yourself as you can and then you've just got to let it go from there out into the universe. Whatever happens after that, I have no control of, but I do have control of what I'm willing to put out there.