Tending to what we hide

Most of what we see and show is the good lighting, the right angle, the fifth take, the morning that went sideways and got cropped out. This changes how you measure your own practice. If all you ever see is the finished version, your messy, honest, tired, barely getting through starts to feel like failure. And once a practice feels like failure, you stop showing up for it. Here’s how to tend to the shadow, the cropped out, the hidden.