Heart Centered Writing & Quality Over Quantity - Share
I’m sharing the following excellent post from A Midwestern Doctor. Her content is at the top of my list of people I listen to and take the time to read all the way through.
I read her content all the way through because it is clear and felt she is the real deal in her field, and she writes some of the longest and most comprehensive posts I have ever read. If you take the time to read all the way through one of her posts, I don’t believe you will be disappointed.
At one point I started tearing up because the care, concern, and sincere regard this woman has for practicing medicine and doing the right thing is felt. I am touched and moved by posts like this because I know how hard it is to find people today when you need help in a specific domain that are cohesive, comprehensive, properly skilled and experienced, and grounded in dignity and respect. And a person or organization who palpably has you as an individual and your best interest at heart, and is clearly in it for more than the money.
MWD focuses specifically on why her Substack has blown up with subscribers because of her focus on quality and relatability over quantity. I know myself I would like to consistently get better at my writing so it improves, comes through clearly in my own unique version of this style of writing she speaks of, and provides immense and cohesive value by making a topic understandable for as many people as possible.
Right in the beginning of her post she writes about how trapped emotions and trauma control peoples actions, and also end up coming through in their writing.
“In turn, I noticed there were a lot of writers who I felt shared really useful information I wanted to learn but simultaneously just did not feel good to listen to and I essentially had to suffer through their angst to get to what I was looking for. As I became older and began to realize how much trapped emotions (e.g., trauma) unconsciously controlled people’s actions, I came to the understanding that those trapped emotions were often what fundamentally drove people to write and that simultaneously, as I saw in many other facets of the human experience, those writers often just weren’t aware of the influence their trapped emotions had upon their life.”
I too can see and feel underneath the veils/masks in the world. Yet I never really thought about this as is laid out above, and found this highly insightful that our trapped emotions can drive us to write. I surely can’t deny this is true for me having come from a traumatic back story myself.
This is another quote that stood out from the post:
“One of the most helpful pieces of advice I heard when I was younger was that people tend to remember not what you said but rather how you made them feel. All of this, in turn, led me to conclude that when writing, the state of mind you hold when you write is often the most important thing. Put differently, on many different levels, what you hold in your brain and your heart as you communicate is what’s ultimately imparted to your audience and likewise typically determines if they want to read what you wrote in the first place.”
Without further ado… please enjoy the post and share it if you feel called to.
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