The Other Side Of Fear
Peppa’s Place is a place of new beginnings. Of stepping beyond the fear.
In the “Brace Yourself” blog, under the title “Billy’s Blog”, I am going to write about my experience fostering dogs. Chronicling the journey of each little Doggo that comes into my care. I’ll also be writing about my personal experiences with mental illness and of having a physical disability as well as using it as an outlet for my creative writing. I am putting it all into one website with one blog to make it easier to manage.
Covid has caused me (like many of us) to reevaluate my life. What makes me happy, what doesn’t make me happy. I lost my job at the end of 2019 when a toxic work environment left me emotionally scarred and sent me into unemployment. I became fearful that I’d never work again. That I’ll never get back to a place of mental health where I can handle the pressures of a job with deadlines, and KPI’s and multi-tasking. I thought “I wish I had some inherent talent I could rely on to make money off of or to just fulfil myself.” Then, the lightbulb moment – Writing. Of course! I like doing it, I’ve been told I’m good at it.
We’d recently signed up for dog fostering and I started thinking that that might be a good subject for a blog. I to’d and fro’d a bit about putting myself out there in a blog and on a website. Amidst this over-thinking and freaking out, I came across a list of goals I wrote 4 years ago. At the bottom of the page I’d written “what would you do if you couldn’t fail?”. It was one of those moments. What WOULD I do if I couldn’t fail?… Well, I’d write that dog-blog and not let notions like success, failure, good or bad stop me. I felt immediately uplifted and excited. There is so much freedom in doing something without the fear of what others will think or say. I am really looking forward to the journey ahead. To developing my writing, caring for dogs in need and whatever else may come.
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