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When my classes didn\u2019t run at the World Needlework Convention last year, I was absolutely humiliated that so many other classes did (some even sold out) yet mine didn\u2019t. <\/p>\n
I felt honoured that I\/my classes were chosen to be in the program as I don\u2019t feel like I have the credentials. I wasn\u2019t trained at the Royal School of Needlework – I\u2019m just a self-taught girl from Australia. I don\u2019t do \u201cpopular\u201d forms of embroidery – mine often looks intimidating and therefore fewer people choose do it.<\/p>\n
At a Sydney craft show someone said, \u201cI\u2019m going to the World Needlework Convention, but I\u2019m not doing one of your classes because I can do one with you any time.\u201d As I already knew it was unlikely that I would be going, it felt like she was sticking the knife in and twisting it! I don\u2019t teach a lot, and I\u2019m of the opinion that if the opportunity presents itself for something you want to do, grab it with both hands because it may not be offered again!<\/p>\n
I probably present as an amazing, capable woman who has written multiple books, taught domestically and internationally, while (for those of you who know me and my family personally) sharing in the raising of two delightful and admirable young women.<\/p>\n
But inside, I feel like I don\u2019t measure up. People say nice things but I don\u2019t believe them. Instead I believe \u201cyou\u2019re not good enough because people didn\u2019t want to do your classes at the conference.\u201d (It’s happened more than once. Again, humiliating.)<\/p>\n
I’m working on changing the self-talk but it\u2019s so hard when you have believed for so long that you\u2019re not good enough.<\/p>\n
I’ve learned that whenever one large guild surveys their members on who they\u2019d like as a teacher, my name repeatedly comes up. Yet, they\u2019ve never invited me. Old me says, \u201cyeah, you\u2019re not good enough.\u201d New me acknowledges I have no idea of their reason for not inviting me. I can\u2019t read their minds.<\/p>\n
Others can say 20 million lovely things, yet it\u2019s the one negative thing that we will hear. If you\u2019re like me and you struggle with feeling like you don’t measure up, let me gently say, \u201ctry to believe the evidence otherwise\u201d and I will try to do this too. It\u2019s going to take some time for me to learn to believe it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
When my classes didn\u2019t run at the World Needlework Convention last year, I was absolutely humiliated that so many other classes did (some even sold out) yet mine didn\u2019t. <\/p>\n
I felt honoured that I\/my classes were chosen to be in the program as I don\u2019t feel like I have the credentials. I wasn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-embroidery","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11475,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11472\/revisions\/11475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}