💁‍♂️ Help wanted? Advice given.

how to handle self doubt and how soon is too soon to remarry AND MORE

Hello and welcome to all the new readers joining us today! I’ve hired a Private Detective to look into each of you and I’m happy to say: you’re all cool. Except you, Mitchell— you have got to stop getting tattoos of character’s from TV shows when they’ve only released the first season of the show. Stuff changes over the course of a show, but you will always have “Daenerys Is An Angel Who Can Do No Harm” across your forehead.

Today is our 2nd edition of Help Wanted, where we give bad therapy to good friends. I have loved getting questions from y’all via Substack chat, by email at botharetrue@substack.com, and anonymously via this form, so please keep those coming! I enjoy answering these and wanna do more.

Two great questions today, so let’s get into it.

Q: I started a substack about six weeks ago. It’s my first time sharing my writing ever, really. It’s been fun for me and the first few posts were fairly easy. However now I’m having trouble because I end up wondering how each person who I know is reading will react/feel about whatever I’m saying. Even though only people I know IRL (friends and family) are subscribed and I haven’t even shared it on my social and it’s really no big deal, I feel like I’ve already run smack into the wall of self-consciousness/self-doubt. Do you have any tips for breaking through the wall?

—Abby S.

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