I have an radio interview on Friday to talk about my contribution to the book Wounded, Survive, Thrive and I am very excited. I got the call last week from the person wanting to interview me. She offered me a 15 minute interview that would air before her long interview with Rhonda Byrne, the producer of The Secret. I was so thrilled. I love the message of The Secret and believe in the power of manifestation. In fact I teach my clients a lot about manifestation and going for your dreams. What a great fit I thought.
Yet as we continued to talk, the woman decided that she would rather do an hour long interview with me in a segment called “Lunch with an Author”. Â She wants me to share what I wrote for the book and talk about the abusive incident that ended up changing my life. We will have a whole hour to talk about what led up to it, the event its self, my life now and what I learned.
According to the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, women experience about 4.8 million intimate partner-related physical assaults every year. Since I was lucky enough to have lived through mine, I hope my story helps someone else. I am also very blessed because I took that incident as an opportunity to re-design my entire life. I changed how I looked at things, my career, my lifestyle and so much more. I learned, I grew and now I teach others.
Today I was working on my questions for the interview and no matter how hard I tried, I did not complete the task. There is so much I want to share and I want my message to be clear, helpful and hopefully inspiring. So around and around I went with this task, getting more and more discouraged.
I realized at that point I had unknowingly put immense pressure on myself. I started thinking, if I was coaching someone in regards to this task, would I be as hard on them as I have been on myself all day? Of course not. I know better. Working from a home office, I tend to work longer hours than I should . Today was the Labor Day holiday and I spent it in angst. Silly. When you put too much pressure on yourself, you can't function. I also realized that I had magnified this interview into such a big deal that there was no way I could win.
Now, I am going to enjoy the sunset, relax and trust that the questions will come. I know I am so much more creative when my brain gets to work its natural magic.
