mrs. robinson.

Hello Hollie Rogue readers! I feel honored to be guest posting on Andi’s blog today!
Let me first just say how awesome Andi is! She has been so incredibly kind to me these last few weeks when I have needed it the most. Our year did not start out the best and Andi has been nothing but patient, kind, and encouraging through it all.

I am blessed to know her and work with her!
And if you didn’t know it yet, you are all incredibly blessed as well to be a part of her blog!

Now that I’ve thoroughly embarrassed Andi….
I should probably introduce myself!

My name is Megan Robinson and I blog over at {And here’s to you, Mrs. Robinson}.
I love to have a place where I can go to express my thoughts, share my stories, and hopefully inspire and uplift other women. I like to talk about womanhood, motherhood, marriage, and everything in between! I believe that through blogging we can create a strong community of women that can support one another through the good and the bad.

Andi asked me recently how I got started writing.
And to be quite honest, the answer has truly eluded me.
The only way I can honestly reply is,
“I just did.”

For years I had a dream to write for women, couples, and families.
It took me 6 years, 3 different majors, a husband, and a baby later to finally find my voice. And it will probably take longer still to truly be confident with it.
[But I’ll get there].

I don’t have any professional writing background unless you count hundreds of term papers and articles I wrote throughout my college career.
But I knew I wanted to be a writer.

One day, I was talking to my husband {then boyfriend} and told him what I hoped to do with my life when I graduated college. He supported my goals and even influenced me to choose the degree I ended up graduating in.
He even said to me,
“Why don’t you use your [then silly, personal] blog to reach out to others?”

I thought about that for years.
It’s hard finding opportunities to share your voice without having to climb some kind of corporate ladder first.
So I just patiently waited for an opportunity to arise and I would pounce on it right away.

The problem was, my dream job didn’t just show up!
I didn’t just find a website one day that said
LOOKING FOR INSPIRATIONAL WRITERS, APPLY TODAY!
Though that would’ve been amazing, it’s not realistic.

Instead, the opportunity came when I started to feel deep, dark emotions after having my son that I couldn’t keep quiet about anymore.
My depression hit me like a railroad train and keeping quiet about it made it all too difficult to bear.

So I wrote.
I wrote and wrote and wrote…

I wrote about my happiness.
I wrote about my fears.
I wrote about my struggles.
I wrote about my frustrations.
I wrote about the sweetest experiences that I hold dear to my heart.

When I started really getting into blogging [I've had my blog for about 4 years prior], I made a promise to myself and my {50 readers} that I would be real & genuine.
I didn’t want to just talk about the good things in my life, but I promised to talk about my struggles as well.

And I was.
I opened my heart to the {blogging} world and from there gave myself the title as writer.

I have since had some amazing opportunities to work with StrongerMarriage.org as a freelance blogger sharing my experiences on marriage and giving advice & encouragement to other couples.
I have also been working with Ashley from After Nine to Five as her virtual assistant helping her follow her own dreams and by association mine as well.

I am not confident in a lot of things in my life.
Sometimes I’m not all that confident in my own platform.
But one of the things I’m most confident about is writing.

When you are truly doing the things that you love,
great things are bound to follow.
You just have to go for it!