Yesterday I was asked what I blog about, it is always a question that makes me pause… I honestly don’t know exactly how to put my blog into a niche. My response was it ‘evolves‘, what it was when I began was my voice, my reflections and my truth, and it still is those exact things, yet as I have evolved, grown, faced my fears and grown more comfortable in my own skin, what I write about has changed and my blog reflects those changes.

I have been told many times that to be a ‘successful blogger’ is to find a niche and slot in, hmm, well that is not working out so well for me. Success is defined on many levels and when I am told that a successful blog is based on earning money, or a living, well I am not successful. I have the upmost respect for the women and men earning their living through their blogs, but as a personal choice it wasn’t for me.

When I first started success for me was just being brave enough to hit publish! Then I honestly was blown away that anyone read it, as my following grew I was given job opportunities, I wrote for other websites, I traveled and took photographs and wrote posts in exchange for holidays for my family. It was quite a rush and the kids loved knowing mummy’s writing was what was giving them wonderful holidays, but something didn’t sit right with me. Although I was writing the truth of what I was experiencing, I felt locked into who I was as a writer.

So I stopped blogging for money, or for goods, and went back to day one where I wrote because I needed to. I needed to write for my soul, I needed to write in order to breathe. Writing is part of me, ask anyone who has a passion, a deep desire and I know they would understand what I mean, I have to write. Sure there are days I don’t feel like it, days where my anxiety is so severe that I feel like getting out of bed is a huge win! Sometimes weeks go by and I just haven’t picked up a pen, or my laptop and then I am hit with that wave of passion and I can not stop writing.

My blog is simply what it is called, it is a reflection of my thoughts, my feelings, a reflection from me. Success for me is doing something that I am passionate about, I would do it even if no one read it, but what makes my blog such a wonderful experience is you! It is my readers, it is the emails, or messages through instagram that tell me that something I wrote resonated with you. It is when you tell me I helped you through a tough day, or inspired you to speak up about mental illness, when you tell me you wore a bikini in Hawaii because I helped you build your confidence. I write for me, but you are who continues to inspire me!

I know that showing up here I can not guarantee you what my next post will be about, but I can promise you it will be real.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you feel inspired today to do something that fills your soul with joy, love, Kylie xx

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