28/04/2026
You didnât lose yourself by accidentâŚ
You trained yourself to disappear.
I know, brutal right? I had trained myself to disappear years ago, just to be accepted, loved and appreciated by people who werenât my people.
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Nobody took you from you.
You handed yourself over.
Slowly.
Quietly.
So gradually you didnât even notice it happening.
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First it was small things â swallowing your opinion because it wasnât worth the argument.
Laughing at something that hurt you.
Saying yes when every cell in your body was screaming no.
Then it became your personality.
You became the easy one.
The low-maintenance one.
The one who doesnât make a fuss.
The one whoâs just grateful to be chosen.
And somewhere between keeping the peace and managing everyone elseâs feelingsâŚ
You stopped having any idea who the f*ck you actually were.
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You donât know what you like anymore â not really.
You know what youâre supposed to like.
What makes you easy to be around.
What keeps things smooth.
But you?
That woman who had opinions and edges and things she wouldnât tolerate?
She got quieter every time you abandoned her to keep someone else comfortable.
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And now you call it anxiety.
You call it people-pleasing.
You call it âjust being a giving person.â
But hereâs what it actually is:
You learned â at some point, probably young â that being fully yourself was too much.
Too loud.
Too needy.
Too difficult.
So you made yourself smaller.
More palatable.
Easier to love.
And it worked.
People stayed.
They liked you.
They needed you.
But none of them actually knew you.
Because you never showed them.
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The loneliness you feel even in rooms full of people who love you?
Thatâs not a mystery.
Thatâs the consequence of decades of disappearing.
You cannot be truly known if youâre never truly there.
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The work isnât learning how to show up for others.
Youâve mastered that.
The work is learning how to stop abandoning yourself every time staying whole feels inconvenient.
That woman you used to be â or maybe never got to be â sheâs not gone.
Sheâs a version that learnt to tolerate more the her share.
Sheâs waiting for you to decide sheâs worth more than tolerating BS behaviour and always settling for less.
Sheâs worthy and deserving of much higher standards.
She waiting for you to choose that.
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