For most of my life, if someone seemed to dislike me (or even just seemed like they didn't approve of me) I would throw everything I had at fixing it. Every ounce of energy. Every trick I had. I'd twist myself into whatever shape I thought they needed. Break my own boundaries without even registering I'd done it. Smile and nod when I wanted to scream. Say yes when I meant no, and mean it so hard I'd almost convince myself.

So this week, I'm not asking you to do anything dramatic. Simply: what's one small thing you've been quietly noticing about yourself lately? You don't have to fix it. You don't even have to tell anyone. Just notice it.

Have you ever sat in a meeting, said nothing, then watched a man say the exact thing you were thinking thirty seconds earlier - and get credit for it? Have you ever redrafted an email four times so it didn't sound "too much," then sent it and still worried it was too much? Have you ever looked at the leadership team in your organisation and thought: I could do that job. And then immediately thought: but who am I to think that? Here's something one of the amazing women on Rise

That's the conditioning working exactly as designed: shrink, apologise, underestimate, hide. Meanwhile, this entire time, my body (and yours) has been quietly performing actual sorcery, without asking anyone's permission.

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