Now What, Y'all

I Don’t Know How to Take a Compliment

On finally letting kindness land

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Heather Roberts
May 12, 2026
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Hey friends,

The last two weeks have been a whirlwind. I have felt loved and supported. I have also felt intense internal pressure that has been completely self-imposed.

For a minute I thought those two things were tied together. That the pressure was the cost of the love. That when something you made finally lands, you brace.

That’s not what was happening.

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