Hey! I’m back! And we’re back!
Hope you enjoyed the prompts sent your way while I was traveling, and apologies for missing last week. Thought I had scheduled something, realized I didn’t, but at that point I was just starting to fall to food poisoning and I didn’t have it in me to put this newsletter together. You can direct any complaints or grievances about this missed prompt to…yourself.
After that, dive into this week’s question.
The Sixty-Second Question
When do I tend to be hard on myself?
I’m not the first person to remind you that we are often our own harshest critic. Let’s try to better understand the ways this shows up and what we can do about it:
What does it sound like when you’re hard on yourself? What does it feel like?
When you’re “speaking” to yourself this way, do you heard anyone else in the words that you’re saying? Can you point to the origin of that?
How can you respond to this voice in a way that is affirming?
What would you be able to do if this voice was no more?
How can you reframe this voice constructively?
This Week’s Jam: “Pink Cashmere”
Though briefly considered for Grafitti Bridge, but eventually released as a single off of a greatest hits album (The Hits 2 and The Hits/The B-Sides), this is “Pink Cashmere”.
In proper Prince fashion, it’s a love song. One likely written for Anna Fantastic, who recalls overhearing the song playing inside Paisley Park when Prince presented her with…a pink cashmere coat. While their relationship didn’t last, it at least gave us this song. It’s a classic bit of Prince falsetto, one made even more angelic by the string arrangement added by composer Clare Fischer. When the strings meet Prince’s guitar later in the song…its magic. Arguably one of Prince’s greatest ballads, and one I don’t think ever got the airplay it deserved. Hope you’ll give it a listen.
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See you Sunday!