Treat Yourself With Kindness

Artist friends: stop beating yourselves up. Stop criticizing yourselves for not producing more, not being more successful, not having a clear direction for your career, not getting more online attention, not networking more, not studying more, not blogging more, not having this whole thing figured out already. Stop tearing yourselves apart for every little mistake and perceived shortcoming.

Treat yourself with kindness. You are doing a brave thing.

— Kelley McMorris*

Skull bookplate by unknown artist P. W.
Courtesy Mallory McInnis on Gems

*Via Kelley McMorris 's blog