🧘🏻Stop Performing. Start Living 🧘🏾

We’re all handed invisible scripts.

*The successful career one.

*The good partner one.

*The respectable adult one.

And without even noticing, we start living inside stories that aren’t even ours.

We say yes when we mean no. We follow paths that feel flat. We quiet our voice so others don’t flinch.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth:

👉 Every time you twist yourself to meet someone else’s expectations, you trade authenticity for approval.

👉 Every time you ignore what you want, you lose a little connection to your own power.

And here’s the liberating truth:

✨ No one can permit you to be yourself. That’s simply yours to claim.

Why this matters:

• Alignment fuels you. Pretending drains you

• Realness builds trust. People feel it

• Fulfilment comes from choice, not performance

🔑 3 Tiny Shifts to Start Reclaiming Your Script

1.     Ask the hard question: ‘Am I doing this for me, or for approval?’

⭐️Write it down. Stick it somewhere visible. Let it interrupt the autopilot

2.     Audit your Yeses and Nos: Look back at the past week. Where did you say ‘Yes’ out of guilt? Where did you say ‘No’ to yourself?

⭐️Awareness is the first step to rewriting your story

3.     Practice micro-authenticity: Don’t wait for the big moment. Say what you really think in a meeting. Wear what feels like you. Post something imperfect but honest.

 ⭐️These tiny truths build trust in yourself, allowing more room for self-growth.

A question for you: If you stopped chasing approval today.

⚡️What would shift?

⚡️What would stay?

⚡️And who might you finally become?

Reminder: The world doesn’t need another person who blends in. It needs you to be:

• Unfiltered

• Unafraid

• Fully alive.

👇 Your turn: Where are you still living someone else’s story?

Drop it in the comments or, better yet, share one way you’ll show up as the real you this week.

Because when you share your truth, you make space for others to do the same

Helena ❤️

Interested in working with Helena, email: info@helenaphil.com