“Am I doing this right?” is the number one question I’ve heard over the years in my Vision Midwifery work. It’s a question I often ask myself sometimes, when I feel the fear of rejection blooming in my chest.

This question is often a signal that some part of what we’re doing, creating, destroying, cultivating, building, and unbuilding carries risk. We risk losing something—belonging, trust, friendship, material possessions, our ego, et cetera.

“Am I doing this right?” is a Summer question. A South question. Because in this question, we can feel the heat rising in our bodies. We can feel both the excitement and the embarassment. We can feel our pulse quicken. We can feel our radical aliveness coming online in ways that edge the space between what is comfortable and what is absolutely not.

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