My journey has been one of trial and error—learning, over many years, how to stand in my own authenticity and embracing authenticity..

To live a lie is a heavy burden—silencing your truth, echoing what others expect, and walking a road that was never yours to take.

We arrive in this world with a single calling—to be fully ourselves.

Yet so often, we measure our worth against others, past and present. We’re taught that comparison is the path to success, to happiness, to “better.” And in doing so, we slip into the dreams of lives not our own, or chase after the glitter of strangers’ fame and fortune.

When our sense of self falters, instead of tending to our own soul, we try on borrowed identities—forgetting that our true wholeness lies in embracing the skin we already live in. When we compare ourselves to others, we lose sight of who we are. What we feel is only the weight of comparison.

Remember—who you are is already enough.

As human beings, we often wrestle with insecurity, which convinces us we are not enough.

In those moments of weariness and pain, we may feel driven to inflate ourselves—believing that if we appear bigger, sharper, or more important, we might somehow rise above the ache within. We tell ourselves that being larger will make us impossible to overlook, that it will secure love, attention, and worth.

Yet in sustaining this illusion, we sometimes push others down—making them smaller so we can imagine ourselves towering above our pain.

I refuse to follow the script—I’ll set my own rules, live my own way, and embrace a life that’s fierce and free.

The real work is coming home to who we are and asking the questions that change everything: What am I hiding? What story am I telling that isn’t true? And what truth will unlock my freedom?

May you create your own blueprint for becoming unapologetically you.

“The most confused we ever get is when we try to convince our heads of something that we know in our hearts is a lie.”
~ by Karen Moning

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