Visibile Friday #4: Stop Calling It A Blog
Your experience deserves a better nameโฆ A while back, I changed one word on my website menu: BLOG became RESOURCES. Thatโs it. One word. But something big shifted. Not just visually, not just strategically. Something shifted in how I related to my own work. Because my inner critic had been quietly calling my writing self-indulgent for years. Just Amy processing things on the internet. Nothing to see here. ๐ Renaming it asked me a different question. Not *what am I feeling?* but *how can this be of service?* It gave me a new angle for crafting and sharing my experiences. Through the lens of genuine usefulness rather than whatever that voice in my head had decided it was. And hereโs what happenedโฆ The RESOURCES section is now the most visited part of my entire website. Those articles act as standalone lead magnets. Theyโre the main driver of my newsletter sign-ups. People find them, read them, and decide if they want more. Same writing. Same ideas. Just held differently. TRY IT FOR YOURSELF: Hereโs a place to start. Look at what youโve already written, or already know, or list some ideas you have - (or use any of theseโฆ), and ask: what is this actually doing? 1. โSome thoughts on embalmingโ โ A plain-language guide to what embalming is, what it isnโt, and what families can ask 2. โWhy I stopped using the word closureโ โ A reflective piece on grief language and what we say instead 3. โThat funeral that changed everything for meโ โ A case study in what meaningful ceremony actually looks like 4. โWhat I wish families knew before they called a funeral homeโ โ A practical rights-and-choices guide for people at the beginning of the process 5. โHow I plan a ceremony when Iโve never met the personโ โ A behind-the-scenes look at ceremony design methodology 6. โOn sitting with a body at homeโ โ An introduction to home vigil and what families need to know 7. โThe questions nobody asks at the arrangement meetingโ โ A question bank for families navigating funeral decisions