Part seven of the 10-part miniseries (episodes 98 to 107). Listen as part of the series or drop in on its own. Either works, but the journey builds beautifully from episode 98.
This is the episode I have wanted to record for a long time. Because this is the one I see come up over and over and over again, in the Moon Circle, in my private advisory, in every space I have ever held for women to be truly seen.
At some point, you started making yourself small.
Maybe someone told you to tone it down. Maybe nobody said anything at all and a look from a stranger did it instead. Maybe it happened so gradually you didn't even notice until one day you looked up and realised you'd hidden the most precious parts of yourself so well you'd almost forgotten where you put them.
This episode is about finding them again.
We get into:
The moment most of us first sacrificed a piece of who we really are to be accepted, to be liked, to be loved, and why the exchange was never worth what it cost.
Why this shows up so powerfully in motherhood, the martyr piece that gets passed down through generations without a single word ever being spoken about it.
The story about my sister that stopped me in my tracks this week and why her moment of catching herself and choosing not to shrink is one of the most powerful things I have witnessed.
Why you cannot make anyone else feel less than by being the fullest version of yourself, and why telling yourself that story is keeping you hidden.
The energetics of unapologetic authenticity, who it repels, who it magnetises, and why your only job is to show up fully and let the frequency do the rest.
Why when you hide your shine, you are not just robbing yourself. You are robbing someone out there who is wandering around in the dark and needs your light to show them what is possible.
What it would do to the frequency of this entire planet if even five to ten percent of us chose to show up as the full, unedited, no apologies version of ourselves.
This one is not about being fearless. It is about being you anyway. Because there is only one unique expression of you that will ever exist.
And the world needs it.
All of it.
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