12/29/2024
Sis, it’s time to take out the wings you tucked away while watching over someone else’s flight. They’ve always been yours—let’s use them 🪽
Let me be real with you—I didn’t just flip a switch and start soaring. It’s taken years to unclip my own wings.
For so long, I played the role of the “good girl.” I became so good at pleasing others, blending in, staying quiet, keeping the peace, and making everyone else happy. Slowly but surely, I started neglecting myself—what I liked, what I wanted, what I felt. Piece by piece, I disconnected from my true self.
Expressing myself felt almost forbidden. Being me seemed like an act of defiance. “Who do you think you are, putting yourself first?” “Don’t you see your job is to manage everyone else’s emotions because they can’t manage them on their own?” My attunement became something I gave outwardly, never inwardly.
I poured everything into making sure everyone saw me in the best possible light, trying to fit into this polished, curated mold to earn the right to belong.
Along the way, I disowned the messy, magical parts of me that didn’t fit into the “good girl” narrative. The more I denied my wholeness and postponed living in alignment with my truth, the more I abandoned myself to placate someone else’s insecurities.
You see… Society punishes us for being authentic—you know it, I know it. But when we shrink to fit someone else’s idea of what’s “acceptable,” we don’t just betray ourselves—we betray the world. We create a culture that’s fake, quick to judge, and disconnected. It’s a cycle so ingrained that nobody thinks they’re the villain in their own story, have you noticed?
So today, I’m handing you a big, bold permission slip that says: You do you, boo! You don’t have to be the “good girl” anymore. You get to be YOU. Fully, unapologetically, gloriously YOU.
Your power lies in your uniqueness. When you embrace it—when you show up fully as yourself—you give others the courage to do the same.
Because when one of us rises, we all rise.
So, go ahead—take those wings out, sis. When you rise, you show the world what’s possible—and that’s exactly what we need.
Ph:
