Jan 14 • General discussion
The Loom Room - Edition 12 : Jack of all Trades...
Somewhere along the way, jack of all trades became a criticism.
As if being able to move between things, learn quickly, and adapt when something no longer fits meant you lacked commitment.
Most multi-passionate women know this story well.
We’re often told the answer is to narrow.
To pick the thing. Stick to the lane. Simplify the story.
But narrowing doesn’t always bring relief.
Sometimes it just cuts off parts of you that were doing important work.
And then comes the flip side...
Many multi-passionate women have learned to treat ideas like obligations.
If an idea arrives, it must:
- become something
- justify itself
- turn into work
- make sense quickly
Otherwise, it’s dismissed as distraction.
So we do one of two things: we force ideas into productivity before they’re ready or we abandon them entirely.
Both cost us something.
Ideas aren’t demands. They’re signals.
An idea arriving doesn’t mean “do something with this now.”
It means: something in you is responding to the world.
To a gap. To a tension. To something unnamed but felt.
That responsiveness isn’t accidental.
It’s a form of sensitivity the world quietly relies on even if it doesn’t know how to reward it.
Capitalism says : viability beyond value...Sunloom says : value beyond viability
Why multi-passionate women are needed?
Women like you notice things early.
You connect what doesn’t yet connect.
You move between disciplines, emotions, contexts.
You carry ideas that don’t belong to a single lane.
These aren’t hobbies. They’re ways of sensing.
But in a culture that asks every idea to become a product, many women stop trusting this part of themselves.
They tell themselves: If it’s not viable, it’s not worth tending.
That’s how whole threads go missing.
A different way of working with ideas...
In Sunloom, we talk about Projects of Care.
Not projects to prove yourself. Not projects to monetise. Not projects to finish at all costs.
Projects you tend like you would a loom.
You return to them. You work them gently. You notice what they strengthen in you.
A writing project might not become a book. But it sharpens your voice.
A community idea might not launch. But it teaches you how to hold space.
A curiosity might not go anywhere except deeper into you.
And from there, something else begins.
This is how patterns emerge...
When ideas are cared for, not rushed, they start to speak to each other.
One thread leads to another. Skills cross-pollinate. Language forms.
Nothing is wasted. Nothing is forced.
You don’t decide the pattern upfront. You let it reveal itself over time.
That’s not inefficiency. That’s craft.
Instead of collapsing interests, you map them as a living field:
- skills
- curiosities
- unfinished ideas
- identities in motion
- things that still hum quietly
And then comes what I call...Seasonal Devotion...
It’s a practice I explore with multi-passionate women in my private work.
If you feel a pull toward this way of working, you can reach out and we can have a conversation.
And if this resonates...
Let me be the one who tells you this...
You’re not unfocused. You’re not behind.
You’re carrying more than one thread and you were never meant to pull them all at once.
Learning how to tend ideas without extracting from yourself is a practice.
One I care deeply about.
Because the world doesn’t need fewer ideas.
It doesn't need multi-passionate women to shrink.
It needs their soul tended with care.
Happily Tangled
Djemillah
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