I hope you’ve been wondering where the content is. This short update is meant to assuage any fears that play is out of session.
It is, in fact, quite the contrary.
It seems I did so much inner child work creating this newsletter that I’ll soon be a mother to my own child next month!
After finding out in May that I was pregnant, I got to work moving my center of living officially to Austria and figuring out pregnancy and parenthood with my partner in a foreign country.
And I spent a lot of energy organizing work and finances to take off ample time to welcome this new human being into our lives.
Forgive me. I didn’t want to overshare something that I was still processing myself so I was a bit shy about updating you all on this news. Pregnancy is a whole trippy, wild can of worms that there aren’t even enough funny memes about.
What I can say already though is that the process of growing a child has helped me re-understand the process of creation as a whole. The perfection you can attempt to have with newsletters, projects, work, is beautifully and painfully annihilated under the ironically complex, perfectly imperfect process of creating a human being.
And then a creative, loving liberation shines through the understanding that there is no perfection.
It shatters the rigid ego and humbles inflexible thinking.
There is no right way to be pregnant.
There is no right way to be a mother.
There is no one way to create.
You might as well relax and play. Experiment (responsibly LOL).
This practice of playfulness in life, through this newsletter and beyond, has already made me so excited to be a mother.
This journey of the healing of my own inner child has created so much breathing room for me to drop worries of accidentally and unconsciously recreating old, damaging (way too serious) patterns.
Now, in the final month of my pregnancy, I feel so ready to create a free, playful, and expansive environment for my child. I feel so ready to continue to create the same environment for our inner children through this newsletter.
I’m excited to share it with you, as a person, as a player of life, and now as a mom. Play Palais is on.
I am writing a new piece I plan to share in the next week before my due date (January 10th).
Thank you for playing and creating with me.
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