No More Shrinking to Fit

For most of my life, I made myself smaller so others wouldn’t feel uncomfortable.
I dimmed my light, softened my opinions, and kept my ideas quiet—just to avoid being “too much.” Too loud. Too ambitious. Too emotional. Too driven.
Too me.

And let me tell you something: that kind of shrinking?
It’s exhausting. It’s lonely. And it’s a betrayal of who you were created to be.

I didn’t realize how much of my voice I had silenced until I started rebuilding my life from the inside out—after addiction, after burnout, after believing for far too long that I had to earn my worth.

But here’s the truth I know now:
Playing small doesn’t protect you. It erases you.

So I stopped.
I stopped minimizing my magic to make others more comfortable in their mediocrity.
I stopped apologizing for dreaming bigger than my past.
I stopped twisting myself into shapes I was never meant to hold.

Now, I speak. I create. I show up.
Unapologetically. Honestly. Fully.

If you’ve been shrinking to fit—into a relationship, a role, a job, a version of yourself you outgrew long ago—I want you to know something:

You don’t have to anymore.

You get to take up space.
You get to raise your hand.
You get to start again without shame.

The world needs what only you can bring.

And you were never too much—you were just around people who wanted less.