Share five things you’re good at.
This is a tad challenging for a person on a journey recovering from very poor self esteem, but it is precisely for this reason that I have chosen to engage with the question.
1. I am good at singing… it’s an outlet I used as a child to find relief from distress, and/or simply express something loud and burning within myself which wanted to be heard. Singing is like dancing with words. It is like validating the emotion within language, giving shape and sound to the mental traffic of thoughts and cognitions, using a platform for expression which does justice to that which the spoken word alone cannot effectuate. I feel like singing is something all humans can do, and within finding our inner song, we find salvation of a kind.
2. I am good at surviving… Of course, to a degree all of us living beings are good at this, and that’s why we are here today, alive. But what I mean is that I have thus far proven to myself, that even when the worst of nightmares actually come to life and I’ve had no other choice but to face and get through them, I have. And you know what, I’m ok. I’m a little scarred, a little confused, I’ve emerged from the flames like a Phoenix from ashes, and despite a cacophony of traumas and troubles, I’m still here, and I’m still intent upon being here.
Rise once more
3. I am good at Art. This is such a blessing. I’m not by any stretch of the imagination in the top league of artists in the world, in fact my sketches and creations are still rather amateur. But my art comes from a place of passion, and I cherish the fact that I inherited a skill for drawing which came from my late Mother, the Head of Art as an Art Teacher working within multiple secondary schools. My mum was my world, and I was so incredibly blessed to have her as my mentor, mother, friend, inspiration. She taught me and encouraged me to believe in myself and to nourish my creativity.
Art is everything.
4. I am good at talking to people… this is both a blessing and a curse, depending on who it is who’s having to listen to me! One positive outcome of having gone through an abundant supply of various predicaments in life, and being interested in so much more than just TV programs, paired with a lack of care for keeping silent, and being quite empathetic, this creates a feature about me whereby talking is not an area I tend to find difficult at all. Again, a blessing and a curse.
5. I am good at writing… since the age of 4 I was writing stories and taking them into primary school to show my teachers. It started off with the likes of: ‘At 12 o’ clock, she met a Unicorn, and ate some cake’, to writing my dissertation at Uni, and continuing to write via blogging such as is this site. I’m not declaring myself to be in anyway profound, but I appreciate the ability to be able to express and articulate, hopefully in a way which uses words able to interest people enough to read them!
Mind-in-motion 
Singing, art, and writing – all my favorites too! You art looks amazing.
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