“Author Anxiety Is Real”

“Author Anxiety Is Real”

Author anxiety is real.

No one really talks about that part — the hours after you release your book into the world and suddenly feel everything.
The joy.
The vulnerability.
The fear that maybe you said too much, or not enough.
That maybe the thing that once felt sacred in your hands now feels exposed in someone else’s.

You tell yourself this is what you dreamed of — and it is — but it also means your heart now lives in hundreds of places you can’t control.
People will read your truth through the lens of their own pain, their own beliefs, their own healing.

And still, you breathe.
You remind yourself that courage doesn’t mean comfort — it means doing it anyway.
It means trusting that your words were meant for the ones who will understand.

To every author quietly refreshing their dashboard, wondering if their story mattered — it did.
And it still does.

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