10/19/2025
If you're constantly working to be liked by everyone,
you'll be expending a lot of valuable energy, and it will be harder to find the people that you can really count on.
We learn important things about people when we begin to share our limits, needs, feelings, boundaries, hopes, dreams, desires, and pain points.
Not everyone can handle it. Not everyone is willing to respect you.
And when you begin to show up more authentically, you will not be a match for everyone.
And that does hurt.
Not everyone is going to care about what you care about,
not everyone is willing to reciprocate energy and care in the way that you do.
Not everyone is on the same timeline or wavelength that you're on.
And that's great!
It takes all kinds of people doing all kinds of things in all manner of ways to have a vibrant, diverse, growing, changing world.
But to find and say yes to the people, relationships, and opportunities that give you energy and help support you to be your best self in this challenging, ever-changing world, you have to be willing to say no to some friendships, opportunities, and people along the way.
You have to be willing to take off the mask and let people see you.
Yes, sometimes that will result in painful rejection, disconnection, or fall out.
But that's how you find the right people, places, and opportunities.
That's how you know that a relationship is more sustainable —
when you let them see who you really are.
What you really need,
and what you really want.
This is hard for those who have been conditioned to be "good" and "likable."
But I promise, you are still good and likable even when some people don't value your goodness or like you all that much.
This shift will allow you to find relationships that can go deeper and sustain you in ways that the surface level ones never could.
If you're working on shifting how you show up in relationships, the Relationship Management Workshop begins this Thursday - and there are only TWO spots left.
Come learn tools and practice sharing more openly with likeminded people who are also working to open, deepen, and connect more authentically with themselves and others.
Last workshop of 2025!
https://theeqschool.co/relationship-management-workshop