Break Free: The Boxes that Others put You in.

In this empowering episode we delve into Breaking Free from Others’ Expectations. 

Here are the keypoints:

• Other people’s opinions about you are none of your business.
• You are not defined by the countless versions of yourself in others’ minds.
• Society loves to put people in boxes—break free from these suffocating constraints.
• Self-love is a radical act of honoring your own truth, regardless of others’ expectations.
• Embrace your complexity and celebrate your uniqueness.
• Your narrative is yours to rewrite—embrace your authentic self, unapologetically.

…easier said than done, right? Let’s do it step by step, shall we? Tune in and let’s do it together. 

Other people’s opinions about you are none of your business.
They have nothing to do with you.

There are countless versions of you swirling around, and just envision the immense effort it would take to conform to everyone’s perceptions and expectations, trying to live up to various versions of yourself that solely exist in others’ minds.
Exhausting, right?!

There would be nothing left of you.

Have you ever noticed how we’re all guilty of boxing each other in? From “the life of the party” to “the wallflower”; these labels can limit us so much that we hold ourselves back from expressing our true selves.  
Can you relate?

I sure can.
It aches me a bit when I think about how many things I haven’t done just because I feared the judgment of others; how many creative projects I haven’t launched; how many posts I haven’t posted, and podcasts I haven’t released, and newsletters I haven’t sent out, just because I was too much trying to be in the heads of others instead of my own.
Instead of staying true to myself even if that meant to face criticism, judgment, being frowned upon, or laughed at or whatever my little inner “meanie” would try to make me believe.

How many times I said yes, when it was a definite no. How many times I shrank myself just to make people feel better about themselves.
How many times did I believe it when people told me what I can or can’t do? Just one tiny statement could change the whole trajectory of my life.

For instance: when, as a child, I heard that I would be too chubby. I believed it for many years; in the mirror I would always see a chubby body even though that wasn’t the case.
Or I heard that I wasn’t athletic – again: believed it for many years, and I haven’t even tried to push myself a bit for a long time, I was conforming to that belief, let myself sit in that box for a long time, until the day I decided that I love sports and you know what?  I am f*** athletic!

So what is it that you believe about yourself that other people told you about you?
Time to break free, won’t you agree with me?
If not today, then when?
Step by step.
Day by day.
Layer by layer.

Until the only thing that is left of us is our true self.
Listen to this Self Love Sunday’s episode where I go in depth about this topic, tune in if you want more.

Have a lovely day.