11/01/2025
the shift hits different when you stop performing for an audience that was never meant to direct your life.
there’s this quiet revolution that happens when you finally choose yourself—when you stop making other people’s perception of you more real than your own experience. you realize you’ve been carrying their expectations like a second skin, moving through the world asking “how do they see me?” instead of “how do i feel?”
and then something cracks open. you start making decisions that don’t make sense to anyone but you. you stop explaining. stop justifying. stop pedestaling their comfort over your truth.
the soul shift isn’t loud. it’s in the small nos that used to be automatic yeses. it’s in the dreams you let yourself want without permission. it’s in the way you can finally sit with yourself and not feel like you’re waiting for someone else to validate that you’re doing it right.
you stop betraying yourself to belong. and suddenly there’s so much more room to breathe.
this is what choosing yourself looks like: messy, sacred, and entirely yours.
join the ride inside the dragons den.
doors are open.
🐉
