You're terrified to share your work

I wrote in a court where a woman's learning was meant to stay hidden, so the terror of being seen is deeply familiar to me — and I want to help you move through it gently. Sharing feels like exposing yourself because the work holds you — you poured your seeing and inner self into it, so to show it feels like showing your naked self, which is why creative sharing frightens as few things do, and knowing this lets you meet the fear with self-compassion rather than shame. Start by sharing with a few safe eyes — one or two trusted, gentle people, so you learn without the terror of the crowd that your work can be seen and survive it, and let your courage grow from there. And the work completes itself in being received — a made thing is in part a communication, only completed when what you saw is felt by another, so kept forever private it stays half-made, which is a gentle reason to keep moving toward sharing. Who might be your one safe first reader?