I'm Not Okay (I Promise)

Good afternoon, my Lovelies!

It has now been more than two weeks since I last blogged and I have so much going through my head that I don't know where to begin or what for sure I want to talk about. Personally, I have some things going on, some relationships that have become unstable, and I'm hurt and at a loss as to why those things are happening. Globally, I'm angry, sad, frightened, and worried about the direction my country has gone and is headed. Professionally, which comes back to the personal side, I'm struggling. Actually, I'm more than struggling, I feel like I'm suffocating, my light growing dimmer with each passing moment.

Maybe my imposter syndrome is just being obnoxiously prevalent right now, but I'm having a hard time figuring out why anyone would read my writing. Maybe that's because my sales and page reads have taken a major nose-dive, maybe that's because my Patreon isn't growing as it once was, maybe it's because I've lost readers here? Maybe it's because I don't get feedback?

I mean, am I a hard person to talk to? Sometimes I wonder.

Whatever the cause, I'm hurting, and nobody seems to give a flying fuck. In fact, nobody has even asked how I'm doing in a very, very long time. I'm trying to think positive, to just keep plugging away with the hopes that my time will come, but I feel like there is a concrete ceiling over my head that I can't break through. And not only do I feel I can't break through, I feel as if it is slowly crashing down on me.

I was once told how much I was admired for being real about my feelings, about what I experienced with some of my darkest episodes of depression. So, let me be clear, while I'm not giving up, while I refuse to give up, just know that as I write all this out, it is with tears streaming down my face and a heart that is breaking. The darkness is suffocating right now.

Please forgive me if my blogs are intermittent and/or brief. It has nothing to do with you, and everything to do with my mental health.

Until next time, and as always,



Much love and affection, from me to you!

Shelly (a/k/a Dawn Love)

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Erotic Romance author. Self-published on Amazon. I love a happy ending. Yes, I mean that in more than one way.

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