Stop Letting them make you feel small

Empower Yourself With These Tips

Stop letting them make you small.

It’s a lesson I’ve learned in this decade of my life…you have to stop letting them make you small.

You have to stand up tall in your truth and ability. You have to let your voice speak up when you have something to say, even if it wavers. You have to stop letting their incessant opinions of who you are and what you should be and what you should say and how you should act chip away at the truest version of yourself.

You have to stop letting them steal your credit or dismiss you. You have to stop letting them speak for you or speak at you or speak without you.

You have to stand boldly in who you are. You have to celebrate your skills, gifts, talents, and experiences. You have to shine even when they try to dull you. You have to speak up even when they steal the mic from you. 

You have to stand up at table when they won’t give you a chair.
You have to reach out and take what’s yours, even if people think it’s rude.
You have to push back when they tell you to sit down, that you aren’t worthy.
You have to be willing to clap for yourself when everyone else is booing you.
You have to be willing to be called selfish, a bitch, ungrateful in order to claim what’s yours.

It’s not easy. It isn’t. But I hope you find the courage to stand big, bold, and proud. I hope you give yourself the credit you deserve…and then recognize you are worthy of demanding it from others. I hope you never let them tell you you’re not worthy, not capable, not good enough, not whatever enough, to do that thing you know you can.

I hope you find your voice and use it, even when no one seems to be listening.
I hope you stop letting them make you small. 

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