I think that's what Trudie wanted to address. Finding the balance is crucial. Many are afraid of sharing their messy stories. I know people started sharing parts of their messy life story and then were harassed for doing so and stopped writing.
Glad Substack and Medium are save spaces to be vulnerable.
I think that's what Trudie wanted to address. Finding the balance is crucial. Many are afraid of sharing their messy stories. I know people started sharing parts of their messy life story and then were harassed for doing so and stopped writing.
Glad Substack and Medium are save spaces to be vulnerable.
For me it's a fine line. I often also have the feeling there's a truth I need to speak but then I go one step back and also myself if I really want to share this story with the world. I don't want to offend anyone from my friend or family. When I started writing I shared a story about the infertility story of a friend and how it affected me in my pregnancy. Although I didn't mention her name she knew it was about her and she stopped talking with me entirely. Before she simply didn't talk with me about anything pregnancy related (wich was hard for me, but I did it for her). This story was the end of our friendship and so I think twice before I share anything.
Long story 😆 think daring to be vulnerable when writing online is important to talk about. There's not right ways it's Trudie's approach. Thanks for sharing your thoughts Miriam. Form your writing and the topics like Träume you cover I know you open up about your past and present. That's brave ❤️
Oh Kristina that must have been hard for you, and your friend. I find this happens for me when I mention my children - consent is something I’ve had to consider hard. Even when I’ve been interviewed in the news and they ask ages of kids - I’ve had to say I’m sorry but some of my children asked me not to slap their personal details in the public domain! This means the papers can get disappointed but hey I care about my children.
You mention Substack being safe to be vulnerable. It’s not uniformly safe one but. There’s quite a lot of hate comments/DMs etc. I just wrote a piece about haters the other day.
I think that's what Trudie wanted to address. Finding the balance is crucial. Many are afraid of sharing their messy stories. I know people started sharing parts of their messy life story and then were harassed for doing so and stopped writing.
Glad Substack and Medium are save spaces to be vulnerable.
For me it's a fine line. I often also have the feeling there's a truth I need to speak but then I go one step back and also myself if I really want to share this story with the world. I don't want to offend anyone from my friend or family. When I started writing I shared a story about the infertility story of a friend and how it affected me in my pregnancy. Although I didn't mention her name she knew it was about her and she stopped talking with me entirely. Before she simply didn't talk with me about anything pregnancy related (wich was hard for me, but I did it for her). This story was the end of our friendship and so I think twice before I share anything.
Long story 😆 think daring to be vulnerable when writing online is important to talk about. There's not right ways it's Trudie's approach. Thanks for sharing your thoughts Miriam. Form your writing and the topics like Träume you cover I know you open up about your past and present. That's brave ❤️
Kristina, that's tough. I'm sorry you lost a friendship :(
Oh Kristina that must have been hard for you, and your friend. I find this happens for me when I mention my children - consent is something I’ve had to consider hard. Even when I’ve been interviewed in the news and they ask ages of kids - I’ve had to say I’m sorry but some of my children asked me not to slap their personal details in the public domain! This means the papers can get disappointed but hey I care about my children.
You mention Substack being safe to be vulnerable. It’s not uniformly safe one but. There’s quite a lot of hate comments/DMs etc. I just wrote a piece about haters the other day.
I really enjoyed todays article.