the path precedes the purpose | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today 2024 10 12

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the path precedes the purpose

The unfolding, the divinations, the visioning and the connection to a Higher Being, should not be creations of the mind.

But rather a joined-at-the-hip quest.

Where the best prediction of your destination is based on the lessons you are learning along the way.

—

There is a scene in The Wedding Singer (1998), where a groom who has been left at the altar by his bride-to-be, is sitting on a porch as she tries to explain to him why she sees no future for the two of them.
Until he answers:
“Once again, things that could have been brought to my attention YESTERDAY!!”

Screaming the last words out in frustration.

That’s me, doing self-reflection.

As I get older, my appreciation for everyone who manages to go through life either just setting one foot in front of the other, or who can settle on one philosophy (such as “There is only love”) or a religion of sorts;
Has been on the rise.

Everyone who shows up at the altar without making a scene, and in appreciation of all the wonder, and with a happy heart?
Oh, wouldn’t it be nice…. 

Understanding Life in a cognitive way, the way I do, certainly has its merits.
But the tremendous mistakes I have made along the way are of a magnitude reserved for people who reflect with an intensity that this whole life simply isn’t intended for.

From the looks of it, I think it would be much more pleasant to simply always show up at the proverbial altar and enjoying the ride.

But for some of us, and that definitely includes me, a special place in hell is created right here on earth, where we look back and trace our steps until the truth is standing right in front of us in white dress, making us feel unlovable because of all the mistakes we made years ago.
Things that could have been brought to our attention in 1998, so to speak.

And it’s not that we disagree with her, we can see she has a point.
But what’s the purpose of knowing that years ago (or decades, if you have the privilege being old enough), you took a wrong turn?

Those are the moments we wish the hardest we had been one of those Living In The Moment Type of People.
At least we would have enjoyed the road we travelled!

Maybe roads already travelled are not meant to be analyzed any more than needing to know someone who already left us at the altar thinks we were unworthy of their love.

Or, plot twist, alternative ending, director’s cut;
What if nothing went wrong?
What if this was the way the movie was set up all along?

What if our bad decisions are actually the 100% correct ones, giving us exactly what we needed to move the story forward?

We too, can walk in Faith.

Not faith that we will be able to face adversity and that we will make something out of our lives because we are surrounded by friends and loved ones.
Because we are the ones sitting on that porch, alone, with the exception of the odd one stopping by to tell us how disappointed they are in us.

But we have something else.

We can trust that the road we chose, as well as the lessons it has taught us, are what is required for where we are going.

Our purpose is an unfolding one.
Our practice one of faith, trusting not so much in a happy ending, but that whatever it was we learned;
It will one day be needed.

It will be what we give out.

The Spool writes at the 25th anniversary of The Wedding Singer, about Robbie  (Adam Sandler) overcoming heartbreak and finding the love of his life (Drew Berrymore):

“Robbie and Julia don’t end up together because the script demands it,
but because they were truly meant to be,
and the fact that the viewer truly believes that is a kind of rare magic.” 

If Robbie’s first fiancee had not left him so brutally, the fairy tale romance with Drew Berrymore would not have happened.
Yet it is the very fact that she did leave him, which was the most accurate prediction for what was in store for Robbie.

The One you’re really supposed to be with, or alternatively, The One you’re really supposed to BE?
It was never missed because of past mistakes which have left you at the altar and to have painful conversations at the porch.

Instead, it will be brought into your life because of it.
It was a sign, of what is still to come. 

.
~Suzanne Beenackers
Catacombe
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Once we know we are a good fit, my price is accepted by you and you choose to make a booking;
We move.

It is possible the above story has already given you an outline of what you want to discuss.

If you think you would benefit from a broader approach, my suggestion will be to sort your story into:

1. the earthly plane
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.

2. your purpose
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?

3. your Rock Star expansion
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.
Like anything, it is up to you if that is part of our conversation or not.

Because all three points are just a suggestion, they offer a good framework providing one hour for every topic, to go deeper looking for answers.
But the setlist is not fixed.

I have merely built the stage for us, and we have three hours.

It is up for you to take it.

————-.

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If you don’t use social media, feel free to say so with your application.
If there is a special offer I will email it to you.

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power is responsibility | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today 2024 10 05

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power is responsibility

Great power comes with great responsibility. Yes.

But also the far more often applicable, yet easier forgotten wisdom as well;

Accept great responsibility, and great power will be yours.

—

I like establishing foundational principles for myself.
Things I have thought about so deeply that I know I have dissected them down to their core principle, so that regardless of what happens at the more visible levels, I never have to change course. 

Because I know the guiding principle, my North Star, my direction no longer sways.

The idea of taking responsibility as a way of manipulating reality, is one of them. A heavily underused one, although I believe that after writing this blog I’ll move this one a little bit more to the front, instead of keeping it dormant at the back of my head.

Power comes from taking responsibility;
What do I mean when I say that?

And at the risk of scaring you away, or perhaps that is my intention because if this scares you I don’t think the rest will interest you much either, but either way at the risk of whatever your response might be, I’ll tell you my most vivid memory, of taking responsibility and feeling power flow back into me.
A sensation as powerful as Highlander having the life force of his opponent flowing into him, after he kills another immortal.
That’s what happened to me, when I first consciously applied this principle, although it was definitely not my intention to break open a whole new path to, I don’t know, world domination?!

Little disclaimer here – before we proceed – ALL actions that symbolize taking responsibility, are actually irrelevant.
You cannot take or get power, simply by saying you are responsible or having someone else appoint you in any way.
It is the energy behind it, a felt urgency, a knowing that you’re gonna do this and that nothing will stand in your way.

So in the following example that may or may not upset you, it is not that I endorse taking the same action as I did.
It is an illustration that if you take responsibility and believe with your whole might that this is yours to claim, and that you’re gonna run with it and no one will ever take this from you;
Then, you will feel as Highlander-empowered as I did.

This origin story of my first power grab, that stays with me to this day, comes from the time I unsubscribed myself from the government funded health screening program I had been eligible for.
Had been eligible for a while already, and had even gone a couple of times, not thinking much about it.
Yet it wasn’t after I started witnessing the consequences of such screenings, and I’m not going to elaborate on that because that would be beside the point, that I realized I wanted out.

That I was not going to let such a system influence my life.
So what, if I had a beginning cancer.
Very consciously and deliberately, I chose the risk of an early death over the horror of letting other people tell me what diseases I might have.
I was no longer going to take pamphlets from medical doomsayers claiming to wanting to save my body, any more than I would take advice from religious people wanting to save my soul.

I’ll go to hell then, thank you and fuck off. 

I’m giving the management summary here, the whole thought process from my first doubts to deciding and taking action, took multiple years.
But by the time I had made up my mind, the whole idea of health screenings had become synonymous with Evil Incarnate.
So to say I was ready to unsubscribe, was an understatement.
I would have taken its head off, if that had been an option.

Thankfully for everybody, no killing was required and it was all politely organized through a website where you could indicate you no longer wanted to be invited.
It asked if I just wanted to cancel this screening, or all future ones as well.
And if I canceled everything, well then how about a tiny reminder in five years or so, just in case I had changed my mind? 
They asked me if I was sure that they could go fuck themselves.
And then if I was really really really sure.

And with every No, and every cancellation, and every Fuck You Miserable Scumbags that I could not type in, but that I FELT in my bones!

I felt power flowing back.

And I regained;
EVERYTHING.
It was amazing…. I never felt anything like it.

Life, was given back to me.
All the power, taken by patriarchy, I could feel it flowing back, and probably straight into that part they had been after!
Well I guess my Highlander comparison fell a bit short there, but you catch my drift.

I was born anew.
Like an initiation where I had faced death. Now, I could no longer be manipulated by the living.

For days I was completely drunk with power.

And there was a realization that I had had an awakening. That something spiritual had happened.
Yet, with the same certainty, I also knew that I could tell no one. It would be irresponsible. Everyone would think I would be advising people not to go to screening, when I knew there was a hell of a lot more to it than that.
I had been living up to that final “battle” for years;
Had I filled in the website form at the first whim, no relief would have been felt. Let alone a response as powerful as mine had been.

But now, a decade or so later, I can share because I know what was the key ingredient here.
What happened those years prior, that made the shift so profound.

And that all this, is NOT about me bad mouthing health screening!

The key ingredient, is about responsibility.

I took responsibility over my own health and life, kicking out anyone who was there with government authority to test my organs for cancer.

However!
Someone else might take the same responsibility over their health and decide the exact opposite!
In that case, they will probably take the government screenings on board and perhaps pay for a few extra ones themselves as well.

See?
Told you this blog was not just me roasting health screenings, although yeah, it does bring back warm and fuzzy memories of my Highlander moment, swearing so much.

But the point is this;
This was JUST an example!
Imagine taking any annoying, frustrating area of your life where you’ve basically  been half-assing it for years, if not decades;
And turning it into a Highlander-esque explosion of power!

It can be done.

It really is the being on the fence itself;
The not making a decision;
The not being in, but the also not severing ties.
It is the being too scatterbrained or cowardice to give it a firm No or a Hell Yes!
That, is the problem in itself.

Not the subject or topic, or the area of life.
And to a large extend it’s not the problem or the irritation in itself either. But you not feeling ownership, that is where your power leaks away.
Or letting other people decide because they know better, and you losing agency because of it.

Try this, any area where you have goals or are hoping for improvement;
“I am responsible for (-)”
And now finish this sentence, filling in the area where you have been coasting, waiting and feeling icky and annoyed every time you think about it.

“I am responsible for (-) and therefor I take the following actions: (-)”

Whether it’s about taking positive action immediately, or whether just like me you first need to clean house;
It doesn’t matter.

But pull all that responsibility towards you!
Be decisive, be thorough, and in a way;
Be merciless.

For you know what they say;

In the end, there can be only One.

.
~Suzanne Beenackers
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THE ROCK STAR is a one-time investment, and our conversation is confidential.

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Terms and conditions at:
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Once we know we are a good fit, my price is accepted by you and you choose to make a booking;
We move.

It is possible the above story has already given you an outline of what you want to discuss.

If you think you would benefit from a broader approach, my suggestion will be to sort your story into:

1. the earthly plane
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.

2. your purpose
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?

3. your Rock Star expansion
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.
Like anything, it is up to you if that is part of our conversation or not.

Because all three points are just a suggestion, they offer a good framework providing one hour for every topic, to go deeper looking for answers.
But the setlist is not fixed.

I have merely built the stage for us, and we have three hours.

It is up for you to take it.

————-.

Catacombe is email-list free!!

Yes – you can subscribe to receive new blogposts;
But no additional or promotional emails are sent – just the blog, sec.

Promotions are very rare, but if available, they’re posted on Instagram and Rock Star Writer Facebook.
If you don’t use social media, feel free to say so with your application.
If there is a special offer I will email it to you.

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creativity flows where the heart goes | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today 2024 09 24

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creativity flows where the heart goes

It’s why an author’s debut novel has the most urgency.
And why a band’s first album makes the deepest cut.

Pursue the topics that set your soul on fire, and your best work will come.
Without even trying.

—

At least once a week I used to lose myself in unbridled fantasies about how orderly and powerful my life would look, if I was a normal person who calmly ran and built her service company where all would find peace and solace in yoga, mentoring, and read articles that lifted the heaviness of their burdened souls.

All the while knowing perfectly well that I am ruled by my creativity.
And that merely the act of fantasizing that way, is already a testament to how deep the rabbit hole goes.
When topics most people are drawn to or emotionally invested in, get visited by me:
Never.

All popular Dutch television shows from the past ten years or so?
Watched zero episodes.
Because if you have your own television set in your head, things just work differently.

The thing doesn’t have an Off button though.
Which is why The Inner-World tv series is playing pretty much all day and, if all goes well, automatically switches to one of the After Dark Channels, at night.
Shifting to a mellower mood, more suitable for the time of day and ending active thinking mode.

Although my ability to really dive into a topic did not become apparent until the topic became yoga, earlier adaptations of my desire to study things I am interested in would be Brad Pitt, Bon Jovi, or the person I was in love with at the time.
I also did a lot of work studying Madonna, in particular (as far as we’re talking about the first expressions of my artistic roots) from 1990 to 1994, what I would call her Erotica Era.
After her True Blue/ Like a Prayer albums, which I didn’t even own, I could feel her work was changing in 1990, and becoming more aligned for me.

My interests dominating my thinking, has been a lifelong fact.

However the walls of where we are called out to take responsibility for how we spend our time, and to work towards our goals or at the very least to do  something productive, useful, and in service of someone or something;
Well, sooner or later those walls will have closed in.

At some point, on a cognitive level, you will have started believing your creativity is a self-care activity with which you can reward yourself after you have fulfilled your worldly duties.

Only to see yourself sacrificing sleep, relationships, being on time, exercising, daylight, meals, and keeping the house clean or at least above the level of a stable;
In order to attend to your creative flow.

My personal boundary was that I never sacrificed personal hygiene, but the rest went overboard in a heartbeat.
All, to follow creative flow.

So if that’s you, I hear you. I know this is madness, and that you (like me) are probably wishing that you still had that luxury of being able to cut watching tv, to get more creative time.
Instead of cutting the parts that would have been so nice to have in your life.

And also the moment that you start doing your version of fantasizing about how beautifully organized and contained your life would look, if you did not have this Passion ravaging anything that looks like control, intention and just general Life Together-ness.

I got you, and I understand.

But you know as well as I do that your creativity is the real thing. And that wishing for a less chaotic life would mean cutting yourself off from everything that inspires you. Meaning from everything you love.

Even though I loved fantasizing about my creativity to go, deep down I knew that to wish for creativity to go, means closing your heart and no longer being able to be in meaningful relationships.
Not with my work, and not with other people.

Ultimately?
All those moments fantasizing about how life would look without creativity, or maybe it were all the hours thinking about marketing and business, who is to say;
But ultimately, it paid off.
Big time.

And maybe this is what will help you too in staying true to what your creative heart wants, while also having the satisfaction of being productive.

I will be speaking about this in the upcoming years as well, but today is the first time I mention it.
Because it’s really fresh!
But what I am about to tell you has silenced the ongoing battle in my head.
I no longer fantasize about how clean my life would look without creativity.

If you are a creative who loses hours in their creative work, but also wants to be in their business.
Someone who understands that in 2024 and probably for the rest of our lives, being an artist is about being visible as much as it is about creating the art?
And that our real job is to sell it? Not to create it, since that, give or take,  goes automatically.

I have found the way to silence the voices of doubt, and to let your art work for you. Not against you.

I call it Portfolio Marketing, and I will speak about it frequently.
This is how it works;

You let your marketing, your daily messaging -> BE <- your creative work.

So for some of you, the creative work already is the marketing.
Like Andy Warhol used to be an illustrator of fashion, early on in his career.  These drawings are now art of course, just like all his other art that was  immediately created as such.
If, in 2024, making reels is your actual creative expression, then that is your marketing.
Every reel is then not just content, but providing you save or post them where they are preserved, they also build your portfolio.
Naturally, you can also be an artist who includes temporality in their art. Then the art having vanished after 24 hours becomes part of the art, and although the piece itself is not preserved and not added to a physical portfolio, the art has existed.
The immaterial art portfolio is still being built, but more in the way like performance art.

So you stick with your own dominant creative expression, and that is your marketing.

Contrary to how normal businesses do marketing, where what they post is tailored to building the audience, and therefor repurposing and even buying other people’s content (365 Days of Content bundles etc.) in order to get the job done;
What I call Portfolio Marketing means what you create to post should be Art in itself, or it should be related to things that were already in your portfolio.
For example a quote from one of your books, with a sales link to the book.

Now this is not rigid of course.
There can still be services you sell, or areas that you speak on, where you create a different sort of content that is not part of your dominant creative expression.
For example a written post on YouTube, when your dominant expression is being a videographer.
These written posts will never be collected and studied, and mused over what you meant, and so on.
But your videos could end up in a museum in 2060.

In this case the videos are the core part of Portfolio Marketing, and the post is not.

Working from the concept of Portfolio Marketing, gives direction to your creative inspiration (and you can engage guilt free)
And at the same time makes sure you do not spent your creative hours on marketing that ultimately does not have your heart in it.

Naturally creativity can also express in the service or product you are offering. 
This is definitely a more daredevil thing to do, and the stakes are a lot higher -leading your creative vein into art that can serve “just” as marketing is definitely less risky-
but it can be done.

What you then get, is that you are allowing the actual thing you are selling to change.
And the only thing constant?
Is you.

This is by far the most Rock Star thing anyone can do.
And I invite you to get comfortable with that idea as well.
To give it time to grow on you, that in the end, one day, you’re ONLY going to create whatever it is you want to create.
And sell it.

Then the whole marketing layer has dropped and it becomes to be building your Portfolio.

And this can be art (as in a painting f.e.) but it can also be a service.
Selling a new course every few weeks.

When your audience has grown accustomed to knowing you as a creator, a gate to another level has opened, where they are starting to come for you.
No longer your work.
This is what I call the Rock Star level, no longer Artist level.

It’s not a hierarchy, both models come with their advantages and disadvantages.

A business sells a generic service or product;
An Artist or a company with an “Art based” strategy, sells a unique service or product, brand or system;
But a Rock Star sells whatever they want.

This is the level where you have truly outgrown your business owner- service provider-jacket, and are now completely free to cross over to any other industry, at will.
You can do and sell whatever you please, as long as it is consistent with the values you stand for.

It is an interesting exercise to feel if that brings up any resistance and if you can bypass that.

Can you give yourself permission to let the art come out, in whatever way it wants?
And accept that you should perhaps resist calling yourself a * fill in any craft * because there is no way of telling what your medium will be in the future?

Can you let the art be the art?

And accept the possibility that the art was something else all along.
You. 

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

Subscribe to receive
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Specify. Sell. Repeat..
Updated sales page, including how to start selling internationally today!

THE ROCK STAR

.
THE ROCK STAR, is Catacombe’s signature 3 hour session.

THE ROCK STAR is a one-time investment, and our conversation is confidential.

To book, email me at:
s_beenackers@hotmail.com

Terms and conditions at:
https://catacombenijmegen.com/terms-conditions/

Once we know we are a good fit, my price is accepted by you and you choose to make a booking;
We move.

It is possible the above story has already given you an outline of what you want to discuss.

If you think you would benefit from a broader approach, my suggestion will be to sort your story into:

1. the earthly plane
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.

2. your purpose
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?

3. your Rock Star expansion
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.
Like anything, it is up to you if that is part of our conversation or not.

Because all three points are just a suggestion, they offer a good framework providing one hour for every topic, to go deeper looking for answers.
But the setlist is not fixed.

I have merely built the stage for us, and we have three hours.

It is up for you to take it.

————-.

Catacombe is email-list free!!

Yes – you can subscribe to receive new blogposts;
But no additional or promotional emails are sent – just the blog, sec.

Promotions are very rare, but if available, they’re posted on Instagram and Rock Star Writer Facebook.
If you don’t use social media, feel free to say so with your application.
If there is a special offer I will email it to you.

.

NEW founded in MAY 2024: SUBSTACK
free memberships provided
other socials:
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what comes natural | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today 2024 09 22

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what comes natural

The talents, skills and interests that are currently activated in you, are both a gift, because here the energy will flow;
As well as a limitation.

And to up the ante;
They are ever changing.

—

I think it was about ten, fifteen years ago, when this idea that we (artists and business owners) needed a Why, was very much en vogue.
Which was actually a trickled down version from the idea that companies in general, needed a Why.
Which is how a lot of things in marketing and management got screwed up.
And this was no exception.

Because when you are an independent the only one that is involved in moving your business forward, is you.
And you don’t need to write down on paper what excites you, what moves you, why you love your work, and not even (anyone who has been within 5 yards of a marketing course will recognize this), not even, who your ideal clients are.

You will know what people you gel with, and whom you don’t get along with.
There is little mystery there, except perhaps that you need to give yourself permission to only do business or work with people and under the conditions that suit you.
Permission granted.

However, for a company, where people need to work together within a bee hive or abstract concept, of course it can help to give words to how client relationships should be managed.
You need to give the company a personality, shoes into which employees can step and a vocabulary they can use.
A philosophy to work by.

However, if you are your own person, then all those things do not need to be explicit, because they are yours.
You, are the company.
If you would set up your own philosophy as if you are a company, it would end up being as artificial as for any other employee.

Working under other people’s rules is always straining, even if it was originally your own.
It’s like when you have those business owners/CEOs who work really hard and then expect the same from their personnel.
When the entire company has been tailored to their strengths.
The people around them are working in a to-them-foreign energy, so it’s much harder on them.

The same would happen if you would set your own work philosophy or artistic direction in stone.
You’re immediately stuck in yesterday’s version of you.
Bye bye growth and agility.

So clearly, that’s not an option.

The whole idea of knowing and finding your Why, and it being this Thing that drives everything, might be an improvement for companies, and definitely beats trying to regulate everything at execution level.
But it’s a setback for if you are your own person.

You are becoming less, not more, if you put your Why on paper and stick to it.
You’ve thrown away your natural inspiration and alignment, for something man-made.

We have to except that we do not have a Why.
And that that is a good thing.
At the risk of being too extreme for your liking, I would offer you’re actually under direct command of the Universe or your higher Self.

Now of course this does not mean that your work is in isolation! Of course you’re looking for connection with those around you, including your clients or audience.
But what I mean is that you’re not doing it from a point of having your philosophy or mission laminated on your desk.

Dealing with your own ever changing nature, or the ever changing direction that the Universe or other powers give you, can be a bit of a challenge.

There is the story about the scorpion who wants the frog to take him across the river. The frog refuses, saying that the scorpion will sting him.
But the scorpion says, why would I do that?
Because if I do, then we’re both dead.

So the frog takes the scorpion on its back.

Of course the scorpion stings the frog, and before drowning the frog asks why.
“It’s my nature,” the scorpion replies.

In the most extreme sense, you are one day a scorpion, the next day the frog, and the following day a fish who cannot be made to climb a tree.

This is of course a very extreme example, and one I hope you do not have to live through.

It all boils down to two aspects, to this process of doing what comes naturally and what will therefor take flight, and come effortlessly.

The first is to realize you do not need to fixate yourself.

The corporate inspired vision, blueprint, whatever, is not for you. And you do not even have to commit to a set of values unless you doubt your own ability to do the right thing, given the context.
Contrary to businesses, you are flexible because you walk your own path. And staying on path, does not mean to verbalize it and name every corner and formalize every decision;
It means being true to who you are.

And secondly, your natural strengths are forever changing.
Because you, are forever changing.

Who you are, in the most extreme sense, can fluctuate from being the scorpion, to the frog, to the fish, to the tree.
And you could say that the work flows from that.

But another way to see it, is that you change because the work that is supposed to flow out of you, is different every day.
This means to trust you are exactly who you are meant to be that day, in order to do what needs to be done.

That you are not given the satisfaction of being able to articulate what your mission or your philosophy is.
Not the luxury and the peace of mind, of having a clearly aligned Why.

But you got something else;
The understanding that you will wake up every day, being exactly the right person for the work that needs to be done.

Including dealing out the occasional sting.

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~Suzanne Beenackers
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We move.

It is possible the above story has already given you an outline of what you want to discuss.

If you think you would benefit from a broader approach, my suggestion will be to sort your story into:

1. the earthly plane
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.

2. your purpose
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?

3. your Rock Star expansion
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.
Like anything, it is up to you if that is part of our conversation or not.

Because all three points are just a suggestion, they offer a good framework providing one hour for every topic, to go deeper looking for answers.
But the setlist is not fixed.

I have merely built the stage for us, and we have three hours.

It is up for you to take it.

————-.

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receive | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today | fourth of the “Lost Posts” series | 2024 09 20 + 2023 06 28 (OG)

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receive

In areas that are not part of your natural creative expression, we can fall prey to intellectually designing them.

But in those other areas, what you skillfully did, was to create the space for it to happen.
To arrive, to unfold.

Get yourself and your affairs in order to receive.

original posted on my social media
28 June 2023
—

There was a bit of a crisis at Casa Catacombe, the past week or so.

If I had written this post from scratch today, instead of scrolling back to 2023’s Instagram for the text;
Retrieving the design from my old Canva;
And adjusting it to the formats I currently use – with the original photo missing from the Canva database, and not being able to choose the layout I wanted;

Then this post would not, have been about receiving.

It would be more hustle grind and definitely less flowy.

But I can see now that Receiving is (of course) exactly the right topic for today. My crisis was indeed about having resistance to creating space to receive.

The way I see it, excavating this text 15 months later, is that your work (as in what costs effort) is not what other people think your work is.
It’s not your craft, not your profession, not your talent or your gift.

“your natural creative expression” as the text calls is, in indeed the absolute least of our worries!

I remember there is this “thing” among professionals, that you have to invest in “sharpening the saw”.
That you have to invest in staying skilled at what it is you do.

Where in my opinion if you are called and have a purpose, that saw will be sharpening itself hour after hour after day after week after year.
Not a moment will go by when you are not nurturing it, everything you experience will directly feed into it.

If you have our type of saw, it does not need sharpening.

However, the problem we, people with self-sharpening saws, have is that everything else does not get done.
What the post calls:
“areas that are not part of your natural creative expression”

Definitely true!
In 2024 just like 2023.
Remember, the reason you have that Super Saw, is indeed because you have created space in your life so that Saw can sharpen itself day and night.
And regularly go on a much desired spin.

You’re not going to keep that creative saw you’re carrying there, in your shed!
Oh no.
You’re wielding it, it doesn’t have secrets for you.

However, what 2023’s post did not mention, and what 10 days of crisis at the Catacombe Casa can tell you, is that if you have this auto-sharpening, running saw, that you love to ride like others drive their motorcycle?
The *checks notes*, “areas that are not part of your natural creative expression”, will have a hard time getting a place in your life!

So yes, realize “all” you need to do , to receive in those areas, is indeed to create space for them.
True that.
But it does mean you have to carve out time, and a safe space for these blessings to land, with a free-spinning creative saw on the loose.

And that?
Can require some thought 😉

And for the unlucky ones, a crisis or two.

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~Suzanne Beenackers
Catacombe
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Once we know we are a good fit, my price is accepted by you and you choose to make a booking;
We move.

It is possible the above story has already given you an outline of what you want to discuss.

If you think you would benefit from a broader approach, my suggestion will be to sort your story into:

1. the earthly plane
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.

2. your purpose
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?

3. your Rock Star expansion
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.
Like anything, it is up to you if that is part of our conversation or not.

Because all three points are just a suggestion, they offer a good framework providing one hour for every topic, to go deeper looking for answers.
But the setlist is not fixed.

I have merely built the stage for us, and we have three hours.

It is up for you to take it.

————-.

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Yes – you can subscribe to receive new blogposts;
But no additional or promotional emails are sent – just the blog, sec.

Promotions are very rare, but if available, they’re posted on Instagram and Rock Star Writer Facebook.
If you don’t use social media, feel free to say so with your application.
If there is a special offer I will email it to you.

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I have been consistently posting “What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today” for a while now.
Starting June 2023, they found their final form as blogposts here on the Catacombe blog, pretty quickly.

But I’ve always been aware there were singular posts/ borderline poetry, still on social media, floating somewhere down my timeline.

Some at the beginning when I did not know what this series would be.
Some around the time in October/November 2023, when I lost access to this site.
And then a few in between.

And additionally to that, there are the ones I did post on the blog, but whose stories revolve around things I no longer offer.
I will retrieve those too;
And give them a new story, that has the timeless quality they deserve.

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egregore, egregore, egregore | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today 2024 09 17

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egregore, egregore, egregore

Repeating this word 3x is a wink to the new Beetlejuice movie, currently in cinemas.

But I don’t think these entities particularly respond to being called out by how they are named.

It’s worse;
Google them, and you’ll probably recognize you’ve felt their presence.
They do not require summoning at all.

—

Right of the bat, I’m going to admit I’m sharing something with you that I am not particularly knowledgeable about.
Yet when I encountered this concept, which was just a sidenote in someone’s talk, I immediately followed its trail.
With my fascination for the unexplained, I immediately understood that whatever that video or that teacher (who was new to me) could have told me, would no longer be holding up, compared to this.

That learning “Egregore” had been the reason their videos had crossed my path.
Not whatever it was they had to share.

And although when I dived into it, I was disappointed by the multitude of interpretations on what an Egregore actually was, and denounced the lack of consistency, that is of course to be expected when dealing with the beyond.

In particular when it has roots thousands of years old.

In ancient texts, Egregores are synonymous to The Watchers, and found under both of these names in a book which was removed from Christianity;
The Book of Enoch.
It dates to appr. 200BC and was part of canon for hundreds of years until it was basically what we would now call “cancelled”!
1500 years before that word even existed.

In The Book of Enoch, the Egregores/ Watchers can be both good (angels) or bad (fallen angels).

But in the 20th century and in ours, Egregores also started to become known as ideas, a collective consciousness, and even entities, that came into being from congregations of followers of those ideas.
And this can be an intentional congregation, like a church or events such as rock and pop concerts.
But these thought forms are largely formed unintentionally!

Through social media, and views expressed through news websites that color our understanding of it.

The modern interpretation of what an Egregore is, can be compared to what is known in psychology as mass formation or crowd formation, where the individual thoughts are replaced with collective ones.

This phenomenon got more well-known during the Covid pandemic, where indeed on both sides of the spectrum (both the conspiracy theorists as well as those in favor of government regulation; two sides both with blindspots the size of an Egregore!) seemed to be operating both outside of the paradigms of logic, as well as opposite to the values you would expect to be underpinning that logic.

The viewpoints were irregular, compared to everything that had come before.

Both sides were so deeply emotional, and required social situations to be free from any attempt to really poke your finger in the loopholes, that now looking back I find the word Egregore, as in its most modern day interpretation, particularly useful in describing what the f happened in 2020-2021:

For the first time in my life, I witnessed Independent Entities being created,
by large groups of people giving their consciousness to ideas which were not their own.
Once these monsters, these Egregores, had taken shape, they were so powerful because they were still attached to the people that birthed them.
They were manifested consciousness.

I remember so vividly the day the final regulations in The Netherlands were supposed to be lifted.
Friday 25th of February, 2022.
I wrote that down by heart, I did not look that up.

And I saw the date coming closer, and was skeptical because I thought:
“This is stronger than they are. This monster of fear cannot be deleted at will!”
I knew for a fact, that on the 25th of February 2022, nothing would change.

We’d have the same people being pro-vaxing, and pro-testing, and talking badly about conspiracy theorists, and of course on the other side of the spectrum nothing would change either, because they didn’t want anything to do with the regulations.

So the 25th came nearer and I was 100% sure I was right on this one.
The paper reality of the government, where they could just decree that we would now stop being afraid of Covid, would not change anything.

And then, guess what?
On Thursday the 24th, the war in Ukraine started.

An auspicious timing which definitely had the power to make a conspiracist out of everyone still on the fence after two years of pandemic!

But let’s not get into that. My point is of that course that everything had shifted on the 25th.
Like 95% of the people or something, who had been actively advocating or just neutral or leaning lightly towards the government;
We all snapped out of our pandemic nightmarish haze that had had its claws in us for two years, and we were awake.
To war.

So I had been wrong, because on the 25th everything had shifted after all!
But at the same time I had been right.

Because it had not been the paper decree of the government that had ended the two year thick cloud of fearful pandemic thinking. 
A cloud I would now have called, a diabolical being, an entity called an Egregore.

It had been the war in Ukraine, that had our attention.
And from one moment to the next, the Egregore no longer had access to our consciousness.
And it died.

There are still people who are fearful of Covid and believe the government should have kept up protecting us from it, to this day.
But I do not believe they are feeding into an Egregore!
They are their own person, they make their own decisions, and have thought this through.
Even during the pandemic, you could recognize these what I would call “hardliners” as being quite different to the majority, who seem to defend government regulations out of social code or loyalty.
Yet you could sense with the last group their heart wasn’t really in it. Emotions, yes, but heart, no.
And it was not as thought through, as with the hardliners.

I definitely think that from the get go, the hardliners had a consciousness and an awareness that the masses, including me I would say, did not have.
I have felt sick with regard to the social processes going on around me, throughout the pandemic, but absolutely lacked the clarity about what was going on, and was unable to formulate my own standpoint on the matter.
I was not myself, and I do not believe I have made in any way a useful contribution to pretty much anything, those years.

Maybe because of my inability to act or form my own opinion – despite recognizing the extreme situation was the ideal moment for anyone calling themselves a writer or a thinker, to offer a thoughtful perspective on the matter-
That the years changed me forever.
And not in a way I would wish for anyone to be changed, but I will never be the same again. Sometimes I fear I have lost my humanity, and became a dark thoughtform myself.
(I have called her Dark Suzy, and technically she was already around in 2018, but that’s a story for another day!)

Okay!
Back to the Egregores, which clouded our judgement versus the “virus hardliners” who in my opinion, did have access to their own mind!
And still do.

Disclaimer:
I definitely don’t know enough about the other (non-conformist, or conspiracist) side of the pandemic spectrum, to say anything about the nuances there.
I have no idea where their Egregore begin, versus whom really came up with their own ideas, to which they will stand by.

But on the neutral/ pro-government/ Covid-is-a-real-danger side of it?
I feel informed enough to say that anyone who after the 24th of February 2022 was still actively standing by their Covid-informed viewpoint, has proved their ideas were sovereign.

And everyone who on that 25th of February 2022, felt a noticable shift, as if despite the coming of the new war, they felt like something dark and malicious had gone up in smoke?
Those were people like me, whose minds and/or whose lives, had been affected by what I would now call an Egregore. 

On the 24th of February 2022 the Egregore died of starvation.
After having caused havoc, and having polarized our society causing deep wounds that will remain scars forever.

So maybe it is no coincidence at all, that the meaning of the word Egregore has changed over the centuries.
From the biblical interpretations, where they are spiritual beings or fallen angels, to the clean psychological perspective that they are not separate entities but simply a sociological phenomenon.

Maybe the collective-consciousness-driven, superpower Egregores, which we saw during the pandemic, really did not exist, until a few years ago.
Their existence linked to digital media.

But I invite you to think about what you witnessed during the pandemic, and make notes of what it is you saw.

The Egregores.

Regardless of their shape or form, regardless of your personal beliefs about where they come from;
In order to avoid falling prey to them, and losing control over your own mind;
And to understand the behavior of the people around you from as intimate as your own family or neighbors, to as big as a worldwide audience;
To familiarize yourself with at least the possibility, that there might be forces snatching away people’s mind, meaning that you will no longer be able to connect to them;

You have to know what you’re dealing with.

And you cannot take my word for it, nor anyone else’s.
You have to look into the mouth of the beast, and find out for yourself.

Egregore. Egregore. Egregore.

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~Suzanne Beenackers
Catacombe
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Post-script:
The next What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today will go out , whenever it goes out!

Because this post you just read?
It was announced for Friday the 6th of September 2024!
Eleven days ago. 
Rather odd that a post exposing higher beings of ill will, that was already setup and started on, got blocked and caused an eleven day hiatus on this website.
So beware.
( and no more promises, the next post will go out, when it goes out)

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To book, email me at:
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Terms and conditions at:
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Once we know we are a good fit, my price is accepted by you and you choose to make a booking;
We move.

It is possible the above story has already given you an outline of what you want to discuss.

If you think you would benefit from a broader approach, my suggestion will be to sort your story into:

1. the earthly plane
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.

2. your purpose
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?

3. your Rock Star expansion
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.
Like anything, it is up to you if that is part of our conversation or not.

Because all three points are just a suggestion, they offer a good framework providing one hour for every topic, to go deeper looking for answers.
But the setlist is not fixed.

I have merely built the stage for us, and we have three hours.

It is up for you to take it.

————-.

Catacombe is email-list free!!

Yes – you can subscribe to receive new blogposts;
But no additional or promotional emails are sent – just the blog, sec.

Promotions are very rare, but if available, they’re posted on Instagram and Rock Star Writer Facebook.
If you don’t use social media, feel free to say so with your application.
If there is a special offer I will email it to you.

.

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this is gonna hurt | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today 2024 09 04

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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.

—

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.

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

The next
What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today
will go out Friday 6th September 2024.

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Specify. Sell. Repeat..
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THE ROCK STAR

.
THE ROCK STAR, is Catacombe’s signature 3 hour session.

THE ROCK STAR is a one-time investment, and our conversation is confidential.

To book, email me at:
s_beenackers@hotmail.com

Terms and conditions at:
https://catacombenijmegen.com/terms-conditions/

Once we know we are a good fit, my price is accepted by you and you choose to make a booking;
We move.

It is possible the above story has already given you an outline of what you want to discuss.

If you think you would benefit from a broader approach, my suggestion will be to sort your story into:

1. the earthly plane
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.

2. your purpose
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?

3. your Rock Star expansion
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.
Like anything, it is up to you if that is part of our conversation or not.

Because all three points are just a suggestion, they offer a good framework providing one hour for every topic, to go deeper looking for answers.
But the setlist is not fixed.

I have merely built the stage for us, and we have three hours.

It is up for you to take it.

————-.

Catacombe is email-list free!!

Yes – you can subscribe to receive new blogposts;
But no additional or promotional emails are sent – just the blog, sec.

Promotions are very rare, but if available, they’re posted on Instagram and Rock Star Writer Facebook.
If you don’t use social media, feel free to say so with your application.
If there is a special offer I will email it to you.

.

NEW founded in MAY 2024: SUBSTACK
free memberships provided
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you’re original material | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today 2024 09 02

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you’re original material

Every beginning band knows they need to choose;
Either you play covers, giving you a great chance at being regularly booked and a shot at becoming professional.

Or you write your own songs and see chances marginalize, but stakes spiking!
If you win here, you win big.

And it works the same for you, but with one major difference;
You don’t have a choice.

—

Although widely known that it is difficult to make money from your art, a large part of why that is, is usually not included in the story.
Which is that there are systems, organizations, and ingrained social structures and beliefs, that surround run of the mill productivity and success.
And that are absent or limited, in art.

Within systems and organizations, there are still nuances of course.
Where certain job levels are exploited, and others require working up to 80 hours a week to get to.
But overal there is an understanding of the principles, the dynamics.
Parts of this system are referred to as a rat race, but at least with a race the track is known.

In these places there is a blueprint, a way to establish where you are. There are best practices and books written about how to survive or even thrive in this system.

When for creatives the path is not just less traveled, but to be cut through with a machete.
Because typically, there is no path.

So the big difference between living from your art, and choosing a profession linked to a system, or in a system, is that you have to learn to move forward without a roadmap. 
Without knowing where you are, and in the worst case even not knowing where you are going.

Because the whole concept of knowing your endgame, is tied to the hierarchy as well, of course!

The more that is known, the more of the map is known, and the easier it gets.

Two questions to indicate if what you want (of vaguely have a concept about) is difficult or not:
Q1 Do you have any role models, in the vein of how you want to work?
For beginning bands this question can usually be easily answered!
They will have many idols and people who inspired them with their music.
But so many of us will be carrying our Rock Star soul around through industries where no one has ever done it in a creative way.
Or at least no one we know of.
When it comes to creativity and art, it helps if your dominant creative expression is in a field where others have gone before you.

But rock n roll itself, wasn’t invented until halfway 20th century.
Every established creative industry once had someone, usually more people, who started not just moving the needle, but painting it, hanging it upside down, knitting a Rock Star outfit for it, or whatever creative thing it is they do!

By definition, creative industries do not appear out of nowhere;
People gave their lives for this.

So if you do not have examples, and it has not been done before, know that is a place where many have stood before you.
It’s where all things begin.

And then:
Q2 Are there known paths to make money, that are more safe?

Again, illustrated by the choice beginning bands make;
Yes, there are multiple options for bands and musicians, such as playing in a Tribute or Coverband, or becoming a studio musician, or a music teacher.

The two questions are actually related;
If your creative expression does not have others to set a positive example, then the options you have of playing it safe, will also be further off from what you had in mind.
Or simply non-existent.

To illustrate:
Before rock n’ roll existed, Yes an “aspiring avant-la-lettre Rock Star” could become a music teacher, as an alternative to this urge to express something liberating and rebellious but not knowing what because of course there was little inspiration to draw from!-
But they’d have to teach classical music, because they could hardly become a teacher in something that had not been invented.

So whatever your dreams are – whatever the art or your creative reinterpretation of your craft or profession which no one has dared to mess around with before –
Know that you are, in the words of Brené Brown, braving the wilderness here.

There have been people who became rock stars and played in successful bands, who were thoroughly unhappy there.
In retrospect, they would have been better off choosing a lower profile job so that they could specialize without the disruptive powers of being in the limelight.

But those must have been few compared to the ones who settled for what promised to be safety, when they actually had Rock Star DNA that was not designed to be unleashed in confided spaces. At all.
When set off in front of 60.000 people, that power would not just have been expected and somewhat required, but completely safe as well.

There is a story about the first rock n’ roll musician, Robert Johnson. He is surrounded by myth, but what is not a myth is that he was inducted into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, in 1986.

Legend has it, he sold his soul to the devil in order to learn to play the electric guitar very well.

And although I do not recommend selling your soul to the devil, I do believe the story of Robert Johnson, the first rock n’ roll star, is a tale of initiation,  and of understanding.
He knew what he wanted was beyond human skill to obtain.
He knew he wasn’t going to get there through earthly means, just setting one foot in front of the other.

He gave his soul, and to the devil no less, because his goal was that important to him.

It is the same power that resides in you.

What are you holding on to, that is definitely granted to the Plan B coverband studio musicians of this world, but that needs to be tossed into the flames of you finally accepting your bigger purpose?

The world needs more studio musicians, more cover bands, more wonderful professionals who are very good at what it is they do, and are beloved members of their communities, and valued deeply for the good they bring and everything they mean for the people around them.

But your fire was meant to light up the night’s sky.
Your name, to be catapulted forward into a future where none of us will be alive to hear it.

You were born to sustain the pressure of the limelight, of 60.000 people or the world watching every move.
You could handle knowing the devil is waiting for you.

Because what awaits you when you turn inside, the screaming of a calling unanswered, and creativity denied, is a thousand times more scarier, than facing whatever is outside.

You didn’t exactly come with options.

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

The next
What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today
will go out Wednesday 4th September 2024.

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until 4 Dec 2024:
Specify. Sell. Repeat..
Updated sales page, including how to start selling internationally today!

THE ROCK STAR

.
THE ROCK STAR, is Catacombe’s signature 3 hour session.

THE ROCK STAR is a one-time investment, and our conversation is confidential.

To book, email me at:
s_beenackers@hotmail.com

Terms and conditions at:
https://catacombenijmegen.com/terms-conditions/

Once we know we are a good fit, my price is accepted by you and you choose to make a booking;
We move.

It is possible the above story has already given you an outline of what you want to discuss.

If you think you would benefit from a broader approach, my suggestion will be to sort your story into:

1. the earthly plane
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.

2. your purpose
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?

3. your Rock Star expansion
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.
Like anything, it is up to you if that is part of our conversation or not.

Because all three points are just a suggestion, they offer a good framework providing one hour for every topic, to go deeper looking for answers.
But the setlist is not fixed.

I have merely built the stage for us, and we have three hours.

It is up for you to take it.

————-.

Catacombe is email-list free!!

Yes – you can subscribe to receive new blogposts;
But no additional or promotional emails are sent – just the blog, sec.

Promotions are very rare, but if available, they’re posted on Instagram and Rock Star Writer Facebook.
If you don’t use social media, feel free to say so with your application.
If there is a special offer I will email it to you.

.

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set your biggest (love) goals this weekend | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today 2024 08 31

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set your biggest (love) goals this weekend

The only purpose worthy of your life, is the one that generates the most love.

And not to receive love, because I do not believe that is what the adulated aspired for.

But where can you give the greatest love?

Or where can you divide your generous heart over many, perhaps millions, different souls.

Where can you give, the most.

—

It happened decades ago and although I didn’t integrate the memory immediately;
When I chose my own path, in 2006, I was quick to dig this one up from old agendas.

What had been that day, or more specifically, that night?
The one I knew I would have more time for now, to contemplate over.

My thoughts of other men, or remembering their presence, no longer came with the sense of guilt.
I was free now, to think of whomever I wanted and whenever I wanted.

And I found the memory back.
And although there was more engaging or more worthy evidence of our encounter, to me these simples dates at the end of August, would turn out as the one that stuck.

The 30th and 31st of August.
Year after year after year.

And for the longest time, I thought it had something to do with the promise of the new schoolyear (on the Northern Hemisphere).
Although regular schools usually started in August already, and it was only in academics where I cannot remember ever starting in August.

Throughout my youth summer holidays had always ended in August, yet September 1st started ingraining itself as a kind of done-for-you, actionable “January 1st”!
All you have to do is follow the lines, because someone already has a plan for you for the upcoming ten months.

So my sweet memories of that night blended with the calm and sturdy productivity of the year ahead.
No longer knowing which was which, and just enjoying the flow of moving into the new year.

Until today it suddenly hit me, what it had been about that night that had made it so special.
So memorable, that it was one of the first things I excavated from my past as soon as I became single.

And that it had actually been a night of deep love.

A night of feeling so unabashedly for another human being.
And with the other not just reciprocating, although he certainly did, but more than that, it was someone who could receive.

Someone who thought it was totally normal and logical, and appropriate that I liked being with him.
As underdeveloped our psychology was at the time, simply because there wasn’t much awareness about how to create a space, a relationship, between two people – in many ways 21st century ten year olds are more socially adept then him and me must have been then-
And yet, I believe there was a sense of We between us.

There was an incredible level of trust, and we felt that and shared things and built intimacy in a way that I would have a hard time recalling ever repeating that.

And certainly, not in that short a time.

It was a sea of love, trust and mutual adulation, all wrapped up into one night together.

And when I say dream your biggest dreams this weekend. Find your purpose. And let it be love.
Then yes, I know the aspects of our lives that we control are limited. Chance encounters cannot be planned. And you cannot build your next ten months assuming there will be any.

But what you can do is to let the stories of when you loved the most, when you were totally smitten, help you stand your ground in choosing your projects and priorities.

What are the topics, the people, the activities, where you are overflowing with love you have to share?

And to promise yourself, that you will start by “chasing” those. Choosing love. And that the only reason to abandon it is if a bigger love, suddenly comes your way.


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

The next
What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today
will go out Monday 2nd September 2024.

Subscribe to this blog to receive it in your Inbox.

signature offer:  The Rock Star 2024

brand new monthly mentoring:
THE COUNCIL

until 4 Dec 2024:
Specify. Sell. Repeat..
Updated sales page, including how to start selling internationally today!

THE ROCK STAR

.
THE ROCK STAR, is Catacombe’s signature 3 hour session.

THE ROCK STAR is a one-time investment, and our conversation is confidential.

To book, email me at:
s_beenackers@hotmail.com

Terms and conditions at:
https://catacombenijmegen.com/terms-conditions/

Once we know we are a good fit, my price is accepted by you and you choose to make a booking;
We move.

It is possible the above story has already given you an outline of what you want to discuss.

If you think you would benefit from a broader approach, my suggestion will be to sort your story into:

1. the earthly plane
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.

2. your purpose
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?

3. your Rock Star expansion
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.
Like anything, it is up to you if that is part of our conversation or not.

Because all three points are just a suggestion, they offer a good framework providing one hour for every topic, to go deeper looking for answers.
But the setlist is not fixed.

I have merely built the stage for us, and we have three hours.

It is up for you to take it.

————-.

Catacombe is email-list free!!

Yes – you can subscribe to receive new blogposts;
But no additional or promotional emails are sent – just the blog, sec.

Promotions are very rare, but if available, they’re posted on Instagram and Rock Star Writer Facebook.
If you don’t use social media, feel free to say so with your application.
If there is a special offer I will email it to you.

.

NEW founded in MAY 2024: SUBSTACK
free memberships provided
other socials:
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build it to last | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today 2024 08 30

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build it to last

Let the work that flows out of you, whatever it is that you do, serving others

Through your art, your ideas, your presence.

Let it come out whole, so that hundreds of years from now its soul is still there.

—

I’m reading an Anais Nin book.
It’s not one of her diaries, for which she became known in the 60s. Nor is it a collection of erotica, which were published shortly after her death although with her permission because she had been working on getting this oldest work of her released.

Instead it is a rare publication from the 70s, a collection of her lectures and transcripts of Q&A’s she hosted.
A Woman Speaks. I don’t think it ever got a reprint, which is a shame because it is astonishing how relevant it all still is.

2024 her work is helping me navigating the waters of digital writing.
Do I write for social media or do I aim for books like hers?
Books which are so fragile, because they are dependent on publishers who want to keep it in print.
They are not forever, the way digital publications are.

Although it is of course no strict line because a lot of what is in print is later on digitalized.

Anais Nin is said to have expressed a yearning for a way of communicating, that we would now call the internet.
It inspired the curator to publish a book called “A Café in Space”
Because her words had become so prophetic.

And by now, 2024, it seems like the words uttered in that café in space seem a lot more relevant, and sturdy, than the ones who have made it to print.
And I assume: More relevant than the books that are, current day, making it to print.

That going viral, in video of course, is automatically more relevant than what has gone through the painstaking process of being published into a book.

And yet holding that old book from the 70s, reading her words and letting this slow medium move me, decades after its release;
It stirred something in me.

In the timeless words of Carry Bradshaw;
I couldn’t help but wonder.

Shouldn’t we go back, allowing our work to get denser, slower, thicker, of more substance?
Not just writers, but any artist.

Shouldn’t we trade our Café in Space more often, for the work that fifty years from now, someone will find?
Being blown away, how much it matters.

You know the answer.


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

The next
What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today
will go out Saturday 31st August 2024.

Subscribe to this blog to receive it in your Inbox.

signature offer:  The Rock Star 2024

brand new monthly mentoring:
THE COUNCIL

until 4 Dec 2024:
Specify. Sell. Repeat..
Updated sales page, including how to start selling internationally today!

THE ROCK STAR

.
THE ROCK STAR, is Catacombe’s signature 3 hour session.

THE ROCK STAR is a one-time investment, and our conversation is confidential.

To book, email me at:
s_beenackers@hotmail.com

Terms and conditions at:
https://catacombenijmegen.com/terms-conditions/

Once we know we are a good fit, my price is accepted by you and you choose to make a booking;
We move.

It is possible the above story has already given you an outline of what you want to discuss.

If you think you would benefit from a broader approach, my suggestion will be to sort your story into:

1. the earthly plane
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.

2. your purpose
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?

3. your Rock Star expansion
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.
Like anything, it is up to you if that is part of our conversation or not.

Because all three points are just a suggestion, they offer a good framework providing one hour for every topic, to go deeper looking for answers.
But the setlist is not fixed.

I have merely built the stage for us, and we have three hours.

It is up for you to take it.

————-.

Catacombe is email-list free!!

Yes – you can subscribe to receive new blogposts;
But no additional or promotional emails are sent – just the blog, sec.

Promotions are very rare, but if available, they’re posted on Instagram and Rock Star Writer Facebook.
If you don’t use social media, feel free to say so with your application.
If there is a special offer I will email it to you.

.

NEW founded in MAY 2024: SUBSTACK
free memberships provided
other socials:
Instagram – Twitter – Rock Star Writer Facebook – Facebook Suzanne Beenackers Schrijver – LinkedIn