The Honest Perspective Weekly Prompt — February 3rd— 9th

Let’s face that blank page together

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Whether the ideas have slowed to a trickle or you’re just feeling curious and in the mood for a little reflection. Our weekly prompt is an invitation to ruminate on an idea and see what arises.

Be it poetry or prose you’d like to submit to us, or a journal entry for your eyes only, take a moment to pause at some point during your week and set your pen free.

All parents have experienced the feeling of being inundated with unwanted, conflicting and down right confusing advice. Often well meaning but nonetheless irritating, and parenthood isn’t the only area of life in which others always seem to have an opinion they feel obligated to share.

Problems at work? Mrs Jones down the street knows just what you should do. Want to follow your dreams? Bob at the cornershop will have a lot to say. Single. Childfree. Health issues. Body image. Finances.

Literally in every area of life, the people around you think they know best and it can be maddening how people feel entitled to weigh in on such personal aspects of life.

Or is the person weighing in, you?

Sometimes the right words at the right time, can land like a revelation. Shifting your perspective…