the way you shrink around certain people 🪞🚪

Pay attention to who makes you edit yourself until there's barely anything left. The people who make your laugh smaller, your stories shorter, your opinions safer, your needs almost invisible 🚪 You may not notice it in the moment. You just leave feeling flat, like you abandoned yourself somewhere in the conversation.

Your body knows who lets you breathe 🪞🤍 It also knows who makes you perform a more acceptable version of yourself. Not everyone deserves the full room of you, sure. But you shouldn't have to become tiny just to be tolerated. Tonight, think about where you feel spacious. Who lets your voice sound like yours? Who doesn't punish your honesty? Who doesn't make you audition for basic warmth? Move closer to those people when you can. Move slower around the ones who make you disappear. You were not born to be easy to digest for people who don't want to know you deeply 🌙