Love these realization and here just to say : Please enjoy the couscous and don't worry much about it's pasta-ness. Same goes for success and such. Deep metaphors here.
Funny enough I just found some gluten free cassava couscous at the store and got it for my wife who can't have wheat. This is getting too wholesome for me.
I relate very much to feeling anxious about how the book is doing--my first came out in September! - and also to trying to soothe myself by saying it doesn't matter, it's all okay.
"I get to experiment & learn & take risks without worry." - I feel like this is the goal for all of us in life. And the fact that you do it with such wisdom and grace - and in cartoon form (!) - is awesome. You rock! Also, it's absolutely bananas that cous cous is a pasta. How do they make it so teeny tiny?!?
What!! I always thought they were in the group similar to quinoa #TIL
:ove the second part of the comic. It can really feel like when you're in pit of anxiety and despair it's impossible to climb out... reframing them makes you feel that you're addressing those thoughts in a much more healthy way.
I’m not the biggest fan of quinoa so I thought couscous was just a nicer quinoa but DAMN we were wrong! And yes! Reframing is so good and I feel like I usually fail at it and don’t believe what I’m telling myself but this time it actually worked!
This is huge about cous cous because I also thought it was like quinoa. Also love your realisation about success in publishing! The stories we rarely hear about are those of careers with slow and steady progress over the years. I feel like a lot of fast, early success is a scary and unwieldy thing!
I know! It's true. I feel like us as a society really praise those who are an overnight success but the pressure to recreate that success must be so intense!!
Those reframed thoughts are spot on! A slow growth in a career can be so much better and more stable than a meteoric rise sometimes too. I sometimes have to fish myself out of a doubt spiral too and I always try to think about how a younger version of myself or even just me a year ago would react to my art and accomplishments. It helps so much to realize I'd be an artist a 10 year old me would have idolized!
Also... that couscous realization 😱 my partner is a literal chef and I didn't know this either!! 💀
Yea! I feel like society makes it seem like we have to do it fast and we have to be successful immediately or else it's all over with things like Forbes 30 under 30 or the "youngest winner in history" and so on. I think it's so easy to lose track of where we are because of it, and I agree I should start having some conversations with younger lian!
And I cannot believe your partner never shared this mindblowing detail about couscous to you!!! Rude!!!
Love love love! And I think your reframed thoughts are spot on. Publishing is so turbulent anyway that who knows what's going to happen tomorrow, good and bad! So we might as well keep making our silly little things and working to help them do a little bit better than before.
WTF I just looked it up too I had no idea it was like that?!?! We really do take our food for granted haha. I would 100% be dead if I had to farm my own food.
The heck, it's paasta!?! I thank you and your friend's service!
Also, as a fellow bearer of ThOuGhts, I jump on the bed, rejoicing at your reframing
Love these realization and here just to say : Please enjoy the couscous and don't worry much about it's pasta-ness. Same goes for success and such. Deep metaphors here.
Very deep... Yes... I will now finish all the leftovers in the fridge!!
Funny enough I just found some gluten free cassava couscous at the store and got it for my wife who can't have wheat. This is getting too wholesome for me.
These comics keep me going. I love this
Aw thank you!!!
Love your work!
Thank you!
I relate very much to feeling anxious about how the book is doing--my first came out in September! - and also to trying to soothe myself by saying it doesn't matter, it's all okay.
"I get to experiment & learn & take risks without worry." - I feel like this is the goal for all of us in life. And the fact that you do it with such wisdom and grace - and in cartoon form (!) - is awesome. You rock! Also, it's absolutely bananas that cous cous is a pasta. How do they make it so teeny tiny?!?
1. I also thought cous couse was grain for a VERY long time. It's so good either way!
2. I have the same book thoughts, but haven't been great at reframing them, so thank you for this. A reminder to be kinder to myself and my work.
What!! I always thought they were in the group similar to quinoa #TIL
:ove the second part of the comic. It can really feel like when you're in pit of anxiety and despair it's impossible to climb out... reframing them makes you feel that you're addressing those thoughts in a much more healthy way.
I’m not the biggest fan of quinoa so I thought couscous was just a nicer quinoa but DAMN we were wrong! And yes! Reframing is so good and I feel like I usually fail at it and don’t believe what I’m telling myself but this time it actually worked!
The Hec.. I actually googled to check if IT IS indeed pasta.. Gosh I feel my life is a lie
WEVE BEEN LIED TO!!
Thank you for blowing my mind re: couscous 😭
Also loved seeing the process of reframing harmful thoughts. I also tend to spiral and this was really helpful to read 🥺
This is huge about cous cous because I also thought it was like quinoa. Also love your realisation about success in publishing! The stories we rarely hear about are those of careers with slow and steady progress over the years. I feel like a lot of fast, early success is a scary and unwieldy thing!
I know! It's true. I feel like us as a society really praise those who are an overnight success but the pressure to recreate that success must be so intense!!
Those reframed thoughts are spot on! A slow growth in a career can be so much better and more stable than a meteoric rise sometimes too. I sometimes have to fish myself out of a doubt spiral too and I always try to think about how a younger version of myself or even just me a year ago would react to my art and accomplishments. It helps so much to realize I'd be an artist a 10 year old me would have idolized!
Also... that couscous realization 😱 my partner is a literal chef and I didn't know this either!! 💀
Yea! I feel like society makes it seem like we have to do it fast and we have to be successful immediately or else it's all over with things like Forbes 30 under 30 or the "youngest winner in history" and so on. I think it's so easy to lose track of where we are because of it, and I agree I should start having some conversations with younger lian!
And I cannot believe your partner never shared this mindblowing detail about couscous to you!!! Rude!!!
Love love love! And I think your reframed thoughts are spot on. Publishing is so turbulent anyway that who knows what's going to happen tomorrow, good and bad! So we might as well keep making our silly little things and working to help them do a little bit better than before.
So true!!!!
Yay Lian it’s pretty damn great!! 🤩 I had to google what a chickpea plant looked like the other day - don’t panic you’re safe with them! 😅🌱
WTF I just looked it up too I had no idea it was like that?!?! We really do take our food for granted haha. I would 100% be dead if I had to farm my own food.
😂 me too!