The Static That’s Been Holding Me Back
Not writer’s block. Not doubt. Not even a lack of conviction.
Just awareness.
Awareness of what happens when you speak the truth. Awareness of what it means to challenge an industry built on control, convenience, and corporate interests, instead of pet well-being.
Awareness that the moment I hit “Publish,” I’m stepping into a room full of people heavily invested in pretending I’m wrong.
Because I know what’s coming.
The vets who treat their textbooks like holy scripture, as if real-world results don’t exist outside of what they were taught in school.
Please be certain I am not talking about all vets, but a broken system creates broken results.
The experts with credentials who will smugly sneer at raw-fed dogs living longer, thriving, outperforming their kibble-fed counterparts all because they weren’t spoon-fed the idea in a controlled lab study funded by the same corporations that sell sickness as a subscription model.
The trolls who don’t even have pets that will argue just for the dopamine hit.
And me?
I feel it all.
I don’t just hear the noise - I absorb it. Every tone. Every micro-shift. Every ounce of bad faith dripping off a comment typed with smug certainty. I carry it.
And that kind of mental weight? It doesn’t just sit on your shoulders. It burrows into your bones. It lingers. It dulls the spark, like carrying a storm inside your head with no way to let the thunder out.
For too long, I let it hold me back, I let the noise win, but not anymore.
Because stepping into that storm is exhausting.
But you know what’s worse?
Silence.
Because when I don’t speak, the wrong voices win by default.
And I’d rather take the punches than let them go unchallenged.