June 2022 Recap (Patreon)

Hot diggity damn, y'all, what a month.

So first thing's first - ya girl is doing a lot better. I'm five weeks in on the Emotional Resilience Program for my cPTSD and holy hell, it's changing my life. Like, people throw that phrase around a lot, hell I tell people boba in Thai coffee will change their life, but for real, it is. I have SO much more capacity for the difficulties of life, and I have healed SO SO SO much. I feel such a tremendous sense of openness, possibility, and optimism compared to any previous point in my life. I'm discovering more and more layers to my authentic self and stepping into who I really want to be.

On that note, I'd like to share that I've fully embraced my transfemme identity and am planning to start HRT within the next three months hopefully. Obviously I have other pressing logistical matters to tackle first, but yeah, 2022 is the year. I'm going to come out to my parents later this year as well. Time to just be who I am and love it.

For that reason I've also changed my name again, and I feel pretty settled on this for now. So hi, I'm Molly. I'm on the fence as to whether I want to "rebrand" from Xero online, as it makes a pretty kickass stage name and I don't want to disown it. That name has tons of meaning for me, but so does Molly n that's who I am now. 

Yesterday (June 30) I finally punched through the art block resulting from the burnout and trauma-responses. I'm not done working through all that but I appear to be able to create happily again, and I'm deeply grateful.

Anyway. Big thanks to all of you once again for everything you've done to support and hold space for me during this time. I can't demonstrate how humbled and delighted I am. Literally never in my life have I felt so completely supported, cared for, and encouraged. So thanks, fam.

I don't have concrete predictions for my content going forward, beyond putting some elbow grease behind getting commissions caught up as I can and spending time developing a personal project that emerged as a result of my treatment plan. You may have noticed some OCs have been showing up a lot in my sketchbook. Keep an eye on em, that's all I'm saying for now.

Hope you are all doing well. Ttys!

💖 Molly