Tag: stop shrinking yourself

You keep asking for certain qualities in others… but have you built them within yourself first? Is your desire for companionship stronger than your self worth? Yeah… you read that right. No, really though. Because I understand wanting love and wanting to be loved… but do you love yourself? How can anyone truly value you…

Yes… you. And honestly, me too. I was listening to a podcast recently that was talking about phone addiction, and one thing they mentioned that instantly caught my attention was how the very first thing most people do when they wake up is reach for their phone. And when I heard that, I thought… wow.…

You Only Shine After You Climb Out of the Pit There is a version of you that tried to survive by shrinking. Softening your voice. Dimming your sparkle. Pretending you were less so others could feel like more. You thought that was humility. It wasn’t. It was self-abandonment. In life, I’ve realized something: you gain…