Maisy Leigh

At first, this will not be comfortable, but it is essential. The crux of abandoning your small self is abandoning your desire to adapt to what others might want you to be.

But remember: Our sense of self is malleable. In the same way that we adjusted and adapted to other people’s expectations, we are capable of adjusting and adapting to our own. We can unravel the identity we created years ago and build a new one more aligned with our authenti…

… not sustain you if you want to grow. Your small self is a black hole for which there is no bottom. It will never be enough because you can never have enough of what you do not really need, and you can never be enough of a person who you really aren’t.