It's a strange thing...

I’ve blogged since 2006 in one capacity or another. It began as a private blog that I used to share my experiences with a wellness coach I hired.

In 2008, I got more intentional about blogging when I began publicly sharing my journey with Weight Watchers. That was fun. I was co-blogging with a cousin and our blog - From Flab to Fab - became surprisingly (to us) popular. Of course, that was back in the day when blog hops were a thing; a very effective thing.

In 2010, as my spiritual awakening began manifesting in ways both unexpected and exciting, I switched gears and leaned into those topics. As my business took root and developed, it transitioned into a blog for that purpose. While I still leaned into the spiritual topics, I was focused on SEO and “gaining traction” and those sorts of human concerns.

And it worked. Several of my posts went viral thanks to Pinterest and still bring thousands of visitors to my site (and tens of thousands of visitors to my Pinterest boards) every month.

I rode that train for a good long while, and still do to an extent. The biggest difference now is that I don’t get hung up on the numbers now. When I write a blog post now, I tend the important background bits and yet I’m far less focused on what might be gained through a post.

That’s a significant shift from a more ego-driven blogging model.

There’s another shift

Aside from the shift in my blogging frequency, which has decreased sharply over the past nearly two months, there’s another shift happening.

It feels like returning to my blogging roots.

It feels like blogging more in the way of journaling, which was the way of things back in the long-ago day when I first began blogging.

It feels like writing about things that pop into my head as I navigate the day-to day of life and its parts; business, family, personal observations and practices.

And it feels like a craving I haven’t experienced in a very long time as it relates to blogging. That craving is a memory of how it used to be for me. It was far less about choosing to write a blog post and more about an urge that wouldn’t be denied.

When that urge hit - morning, afternoon, evening - and without regard for whether I may have already published a post that day, I’d be back at my computer. I’d type into the blog container whatever needed expression and click PUBLISH without regard for - gasp! - SEO or an appropriate image with the appropriate details for sharing on Pinterest.

It feels less like performing, which I’m just now realizing blogging has become for me (much like posting on Instagram), and more like sharing my heart, my soul, my vision, my interests.

It’s a strange thing…

…to realize that’s where I’m heading, and that where I’m heading is taking me back to my blogging roots. Given what I observe among my peers, I wonder if that’s where many of us are heading: our own particular version of going back to the future.

Maybe that’s why I was inspired to cue up An Evening with John Denver on Amazon Music to accompany me. I don’t remember the last time I blogged to anything other than instrumental music, never mind sang along while doing so. It’s sweet.

Thanks for reading.

Love.