By Barrie Davenport
“Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.” ~T.S. Eliot
This a guest post by Diana Baur of A Certain Simplicity
I recently told a new friend that I suffered for years from anxiety and panic. She was shocked. “You? You who walked away from a normal life open a B&B in Italy? I thought you were fearless! You get scared?”
What a question.
Leaving corporate life with its feigned sense of security and moving to Italy to restore an old property was more of a challenge than I could have imagined.
It turns out that I chose this particular path not to live la dolce vita in the Italian countryside as I had originally thought, but rather to reckon with anxiety that had kept me from reaching my potential for way too long.
In spring of... More...
