this is gonna hurt

Is first of all an expression, full courtesy of Sixx: A.M., the band from Nikki Sixx.

But next to that?
Is also a pretty fuckin’ accurate description of what will happen.

If, you succeed.

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Every time I listen to anything Nikki Sixx has ever created I am overwhelmed by the darkness, the grandness but also the magnetic beauty of it like a rose growing from the ashes.

There is so much emotion, rolled up in one that you can’t help but be drawn to it.
At least, I can’t.

Whether it are his photo books, where he photographs models who have bodies that look different than most of us.
Whether he narrates his own diary, to what has be the most epic audiobook ever created, The Heroin Diaries, including music written for the book.

Or whether you read the beautifully designed books by yourself;
You will find something captivating there, and something rare.

Nikki Sixx’ work is devoid of any corporate-ness, any lazy cashing in on previous successes.
It is alive, kicking, and bleeding, to this day.
Just like him.

But holy Christ, the pain through which Nikki Sixx has gone, and how close he needs to keep that to the surface in order be able to connect to it.
And through that;
To us.

The moment he starts pushing it away, and cements it over with a comfortable layer of some sort of emotional suppressant anyone with a history of substance and drug abuse would still allow themselves (shopping, eating, gambling)

That moment?
It’s gone.
His work will be devoid of emotion, it will become safe and soulless.

Yet his is the work of someone who keeps part of the wound open.

And here’s the kicker;
Next to his own pain he has faced the pain of the ones showing up in front of his lens, and at his signing table, where he would work past opening hours because he didn’t want to send anyone home who had been waiting in line to talk to him.

Some said they had been sober for years, thanks to reading the book.
Others were off the drugs for 48 hours.
And he opened his heart and talked to them all.

Exactly like I am asking of you.

If you do not want to become an artistic travesty.
If you, want to be that rare gem that comes up with something real, then rip the band aid and feel your god damn pain.
It’s the only way.

Let the art flow out and cleanse your wounds.

And welcome it when others bring their pain, which you triggered by your work and by who you are, and by creating whatever came out of that.

Immerse yourself in it, and learn to love it.
It is not THE way, no, far from it;
But it is yours.

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~Suzanne Beenackers
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Your possessions, worldly matters, income streams, worries and responsibilities you fear you can’t meet.
A helpful term could be how do things look from the perspective of financial freedom, or worldly freedom.

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What is the work you love doing, what are the moments big or small, that you know you are aligned. Has God told you, what you’re here for?
This is about creative freedom, or even karmic freedom.
Are you free to do the work, that is yours?

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What is the fullest expression you are here to bring?
And what are the areas you’re playing small, as if cut off from your powers?
We investigate if in those areas, the rules you play by are yours, or society’s.
“3” is related to sexual freedom.
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