But I’m moving.
Find me here.
Soon Soon Sooon. Thank you for the comments, the thoughts, the love.
Sincerely yours,
N.
Chapter 7: Personal Growth.
Feeling powerful and beautiful are two things we cannot effectively cultivate from a place outside ourselves – Sara Bareilles.
UPDATES !
Hello friends!
I didn’t have much planned for today and I thought about doing a post on ‘things that scare me/5 of my biggest fears’ but thought I’d keep that for later and update you on a couple of things first.
Chapter 6: Living In The Now
A few weeks ago the story of Megan Sullivan went viral on the interwebs and I’m sure you’ve all heard of it. If you haven’t here is a breakdown: Megan has a really shitty week (reallyyyyy shitty), she has a 50 ft fall, gets hit by a car and is diagnosed with skin cancer. Like I said, terrible week. She then decides to make one of her biggest dreams happen so she visits the seven wonders in 12 days. It’s a great story, it really is. It’s a story we’ve all heard and loved and been inspired by.
Chapter 5: Chasing Your Dreams.
To be completely honest with you, I don’t know how to start this post. I just know it’s definitely something I want to talk about. It’s something I struggle with at times because although I preach a lot to people about doing whatever makes them happy and doing what they want to do with their lives. It’s hard to put into practice. So here is a reminder to myself and to you.
Chapter 4: Finding Inspiration.
There’s no magic potion, or secret formula, or perfect equation to finding inspiration. Quite frankly it’s one of the biggest struggles for any artist. Even when the inspiration is flowing and content is being produced there’s always that little voice saying ‘but what if you run out of things to say? what if you can’t make art anymore? what if you can’t tell stories anymore?’ It’s terrifying but realistically it will happen. It will happen often and here are some of the ways I get through it.
Chapter 3: Forgiveness.
I’ve had this post in mind ever since the Brussels attack and it’s a tricky one for me to write because it branches off into so many different topics. I find myself having so much to say and I get completely side tracked. Forgive me if it sounds a little messy but I hope the point will come across. Let’s do this!
Chapter 2: Self Love
Self love is a chapter that is particularly important to me simply because it hits close to home. Like I said it’s taken me over a decade to embrace who I am and like myself for that. So here are a few important things I’ve learned along the way.
Chapter 1: Faking Indifference
Over the last couple of months I’ve noticed that faking indifference is an increasingly popular concept and it bothers me. It bothers me on so many different levels, for so many different reasons. Hear me out!
Chapter 0: Introduction
My main resolution this year was to be more vocal about my thoughts and opinions which also includes being more opened about my feelings.
I grew up traveling a lot, so home wasn’t a concept I grasped till much later. I spent a lot of time in my own world. You see, having to continuously change country and make new friends does get tiring. Don’t get me wrong I did have friends but I often felt like I didn’t fit in. Not so much like a square peg in a round hole. More like a round peg in a square hole .. it would fit it just didn’t always feel right.
I spent a lot of my time wondering what people would think and say about me. Which didn’t really help me express myself the way I would have wanted to. Instead, I would try fit a mold which made me somebody I wasn’t and I often felt like I’d lose myself in doing so. Until I realised that what people think didn’t and shouldn’t matter. It has taken me over a decade to embrace that, to embrace me.
I am not the best artist, hell, people wouldn’t even say I’m an artist. I mainly just draw stick figures or doodle weird things, can barely play an entire song on the piano, my voice cracks when I sing Adele (Because I’m most definitely not Adele), my pictures are often blurry or out of focus and I always edit them too dark and it takes me weeks to scribble out a tiny poem.
Yet here I am calling myself an artist.
Because as Steve Jobs once said ‘The ones who are crazy enough to believe that they can change the world are the ones that do.’ I hope you join me on this journey while I discover and embrace all the things that surround us and make us human. If you’re lost, I hope you find yourself.
My name is Nathalie and I am an artist. Because artists tell stories and I have stories to tell.
Welcome.
Nathalie Coeln 