On Knowing When To Get on Your Zoom or Get in the Bed
For the Worldbuilders Ep. 076
Dear Worldbuilder,
One of the most common questions I get when helping folks develop their income generating creative offer or decide on their newsletter cadence is:
“But what if I get sick?”
The answer is always, you will.
“But what if a loved one, parent, child, partner, gets sick?”
The answer is always, they will.
We hope and we pray for continued health and well being, but the reality is if we’re not already disabled, we will be — whether it’s through state-sanctioned violence, the demands of racial capitalism or plain ol’ old age.
It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when.
So what happens when we or someone in our lives gets sick? We communicate. We ask for accommodations. We make care requests. We seek and, this is the crucial part, learn to receive help.
Most importantly, we don’t deny ourselves the pleasure of the work we came here to do because we don’t trust the webs of care in our lives to catch us when we need it most.
These were the reminders I had to repeat to myself when soothing my nervous system as I pushed Seeda School’s Worldbuilding Workshop, Open Enrollment and Retreat dates back a full week due to health struggles for the first time since seeding the retreat back in 2023.
And what happened? The well wishes poured in and my loved ones showed up. That didn’t mean fear didn’t show up too.
“There is so much abundance waiting for me on the other side of my rest”.
This is the affirmation I held on to this week and this is the affirmation I share inside today’s episode.
This one is for the self-employed folks who have to pay themselves for their sick days. For the recovering push-through artists who trust their hustle more than they do their ease. For those who have worked so hard, for so long that they don’t even know what their max capacity is — every year presenting new challenges, requiring new limits, seemingly stretching into infinity. This one is for those who delight in the rigor of a challenge and experience an erotic charge when spirit is inviting them into the next growth spurt or learning curve. This one is for those of us who are getting on our Zoom while grieving, because we desperately want to hit pause but the bills keep coming.
As always, this one is for the worldbuilders.
I see you. I’ve been each of these worldbuilders, sometimes all at once.
How do we know when a season is requiring our strength or our stillness?
This is the question we unpack in today’s episode.
Tune into the 76th episode “On Knowing When To Get on Your Zoom or Get in the Bed” on the podcast For the Worldbuilders via Spotify or Apple Podcast.
Let me know what you think by replying to this email. 💌
Register for The Worldbuilding Workshop Series
So back to the question, what if we get sick? We ask for accommodations like I had to do this week. This too is worldbuilding and this is why I use that word. “Worldbuilding” seems to be the only one large enough to point to all the systems that have to change to ensure that we can prioritize remaining whole while doing the work we came here to do.
Whether that work is healing, teaching, coaching, writing, consulting, facilitating, researching, designing, parenting or gardening, I want to invite you to register for the free Worldbuilding Workshop series to learn more about Seeda School’s upcoming creative retreat where you will learn how to develop and launch an income generating creative offer through 3 major milestones:
Decide on an Offer: This is where we help you discover the work you came here to offer us.
Create a Framework: This is where we create the journey for whoever you dream the offer will serve.
Create A Sales System: This is where we activate the mycellial network of support already alive inside your practice and welcome the people waiting to support or work with you as soon as you create the invitation.
Register for our free Worldbuilding Workshop Series to learn more about the retreat and receive the syllabus outlining all the Seeda School programming for Spring 2025 in your registration confirmation email!
So be it, see to it, breathe through it,
Ayana
