22/11/2025
For a long time, I was the one who carried everything for others, the emotions, the planning, the caretaking, the calming, the soothing, the fixing.
It was love, and it was also survival.
I’ve been integrating & learning to be more supportive to myself, which in turn, supports others:
I can support people without carrying their entire emotional world. (WHAT?!? Is that safe?!)😅
I can be compassionate without losing myself. I can lead, guide, and love, without abandoning my own needs. (Ooof that’s a hard one for a recovering people pleaser)🤪🤭
This is what autonomy looks like for me:
Staying connected, while staying centered.
It’s not pulling away from people, it’s finally showing up in relationships with full truth, full breath, and full self.
I’m workin on embodying this each day. It’s one thing to get the mind to switch, it’s a whole Other thing of embodying into your nervous system & body.
What emotional load have you been carrying that doesn’t actually belong to you?
What would it feel like to finally set it down?
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