Category: what do Rock Stars need to hear today?

the point of no return is far behind you

Your mission, your work, your history and your purpose;
They have built your strength, they have robbed you of your peace of mind and they have galvanized you into the person you are today.

Your destiny has carved itself into your bones and burned itself into your flesh.

There is no, nor will there ever be,
rest for the wicked.

—

Look at the very fabric of your day, at the moving parts and pieces of your life. The ones that seem to effortlessly flow out of you, and for which there is always time regardless of how busy your life is.
The ones that come like breathing.

Look honestly at the recurring thoughts and the inconvenient, maddening, knowing of Truth, you carry with you.
You know which one I’m talking about.
The one that doesn’t budge regardless of how hard you try to rationalize yourself out of it.

These things reveal the code with which you came, or the one that was printed upon you when you were ready to receive her.
When you were strong enough to carry the responsibility and the intensity  would no longer harm you.
Oh no, it would excite you!

Or at least; That was the plan.
The plan before you started downplaying, avoiding, covering up and disguising your deepest truth as something that was no longer repulsive and obscene in its brutal honesty. No longer so violently blowing us away, shake us to our core, and divide our lives into a before and an after.

And I know that with a world filled with real physical violence this is, in particular now, not an easy role to play.
But you are not a bringer of physical violence, not of inequality, not of judgement, and not even of redemption.

What you, Rock Star, need to hear today is that your task was never brutal and violent to begin with.
So there is no reason to be ashamed.

We want you to wake us up with what you have been shown.
And we need it in its original form, without the social veneer, exactly as it was shown to you.

You are not “just” the messenger;
You are, the messenger.

~Suzanne Beenackers
Catacombe
become the Rock Star you were born to be

the point of no return is far behind you
was the 7th episode of What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today

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it was never under your command

You decide what you do with the endless stream of ideas, the urges and the hunches, the inspiration and the passion.

Once picked up, some of them will stay with you for life. Others will leave. Sometimes without you noticing.

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Original story 2023 09 24
Rewritten 2026 06 26

“You have the right to work, but for the work’s sake only. You have no right to the fruits of work.”
and
“Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self-surrender.”
Bhagavad Gita

And there is something about not being lazy in there too, but for now I’m just gonna go with the assumption that your art has the potential to devour you, if left unexpressed.
That the option of laziness is not on the table, not under it, nor within a five mile radius.

I’m going to label it a case of eating or being eaten, but between you and your art.
Where every time the idea comes you roll your eyes thinking:
“Please tell me this one is not for me. I haven’t even gotten my head around the last one!”

But what if you would release any idea of you having to actually do, shape or manage it?
That even your skill and experience are not meant to be what you are relying on right now.
That it wants you in your purest, most receptive state. Not like a vessel, but like a doorway.
A gate from the world of ideas into reality.

The ideas pick you.

Welcome everyone, but do not name it yet nor get attached to its presence.
There is still a long way to go before it is manifested in a recognizable form and even longer before it grows into maturity.

They need us as facilitators and as stewards, using skills on the fly we didn’t even know we had.
They need us to be a strong gateway or lay the path for them into the world.
Let the idea come through, and guide it into this world.
We do not know if this is their moment to be manifested in true form, nor do we know how long they will stay on this earth.

And it is not our job to know, either.

..
~Suzanne Beenackers
Catacombe
become the Rock Star you were born to be

it was never under your command
was the 4th episode of What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today

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give yourself full expansion

You were given the size you were meant to have, to bring what you came here to bring.

To cut, limit, to apologize for who you are and even to soften rough edges;
It is to risk your entire legacy.

—

A mouse is small, an elephant big and a whale is even bigger. All beings have exactly the size they are meant to have.
And we humans too are all born having certain talents and a personality, all of them developing over time. Until some of us reach a stage where Normal is no longer covering it.

When you are beginning to stand out like a dormouse between the house mice;
An African elephant between Asian ones;
Or a blue whale between the humpbacks.

And regardless if you are sensitive to this animal analogy or not, your job will be to accept this as an unchangeable reality, that will express itself at various moments throughout your life.
And almost exclusively;
In the most inconvenient and unfavorable of ways!

But your being different, your inability to commit to the simplest of tasks, to show up for the smallest of things or your sensitivity to the horrendous mundaneness of the daily grind?
Well?
Could it be because perhaps you were born for bigger and bolder things?

That maybe, your expansion lies somewhere else, where all the little things will fall away, or fall in place, or maybe they go nowhere at all, yet they will lose their relevance.

Move into the full expansion of your Blue whale-ness, your African elephant-ness, your dormouse-ness and your Rock Star-ness.

That, is YOUR commitment!

~Suzanne Beenackers
Catacombe
become the Rock Star you were born to be

give yourself full expansion
was the 3rd episode of What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today

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🗞️📰 since MAY 2024: SUBSTACK

there is no mistaking if you are called

If you can do something else, and find it joyful and fulfilling;
You are not.

Let me rephrase:
If you can do something else.
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“Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say”
Alan W. Watts

There is more than one writer who holds the belief that writing should have a sense of urgency to it.
That there is no point in doing it to BECOME, a writer.

You either are or you aren’t.

And what better time to be reminded of that urgency?
When even the bakery around the corner uses social media to get their message out. A business we all support and feel the human(ity) behind it.
It is certainly preferable to having our minds and wallets hacked by AI generated products and commercials.

It is so easy to feel shame around getting your message out.
To be visible.

Yet, I’m not here to help you to dip your toes in, nor to coach you through the treacherous waters of social media and into the safety of a Patreon account.
I am here to say;
Then you are not called.

And any of us called ones would be very happy to trade places with you!
I know I would.
Oh! The wonderfully neutral yoga- or coaching business I could build.
The soft and gentle life, revolving about self-care and small adventures I could have!!
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And I bet Alan Wilson Watts would love to trade places with a non-called one too:

“Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we’re not alone.
Write like you have a message from the king. Or don’t.
Who knows, maybe you’re one of the lucky ones who doesn’t have to.”

― Alan Wilson Watts

You do not have options, when your message tries to cut itself a way out of your heart every time you deny it.
Or you do, but it’s between letting it out – where fear of the external consequences to being visible is the least of your worries compared to the turmoil going on inside! –
or getting drugs strong enough to shut the shrieking inner voice down.

But if you are called, you also have what it takes to take that message where it belongs.

Out there.
On a stage.
The biggest one you can find without being thrown in jail.

And even then, you’ll at least consider it.

~Suzanne Beenackers
Catacombe
become the Rock Star you were born to be

there is no mistaking if you are called
was the 2nd episode of What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today

Instagram – Twitter – Rock Star Writer Facebook – Facebook Suzanne Beenackers Schrijver – LinkedIn

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🗞️📰 since MAY 2024: SUBSTACK