Why Did I Stop Posting YouTube Videos? (It’s Probably Not Why You Think)

The Healthy Writer: Where Creativity Meets Wellness

Nearing the end of 2021, I began a YouTube Channel called “The Healthy Writer.” I had been wanting to start a consistent YouTube channel since I was a teenager, but fear kept me from doing so. It’s true that I did make a few videos and posted them over the years prior to 2021, but it was the consistency of posting that I knew mattered, and that’s what I wanted to be: a consistent content creator. In order to get over my fears, I did Tim Ferriss’ Fear-Setting exercise. This exercise helped me start my channel. I posted consistently for a few months, and then a couple things happened:

1. I moved
2. I didn’t have an apartment for a few months while I was on a waitlist for an apartment, so I stayed with a friend, then relatives abroad. Despite these things, I was filming videos and even posted a few during this time.

But then… I felt something started to creep up in me. I filmed footage for maybe 15–20 videos that I never fully edited or posted. One problem was that I forgot to film a couple components for a few videos like intros or outros or a camera error occurred or the editing was crashing my computer. But the big problem was really that I couldn’t turn off the critical voice in my head that was saying louder and louder: Not. Good. Enough.