One Positive Action

Rewrite your story:

We all carry stories about ourselves, quiet, persistent ones that have often been with us for years. Maybe it’s the voice that says you’re too sensitive. Or that you always mess things up. Or that you have to be perfect to be worthy of love. These stories usually didn’t start with us, they were shaped by experiences, by how we were treated, by the moments when we felt unseen or misunderstood. And over time, we stopped questioning them. We just called them truth.

But here’s what I know: these stories aren’t facts. They’re survival strategies. They’re the brain’s way of trying to make sense of pain. And the moment we start to get curious about them, when we say, Where did this come from? Is it even true? we begin to loosen their grip. We begin to realize we’ve been telling ourselves something that may have protected us once but is now holding us back.

When you rewrite your story, you’re choosing to finally tell the whole truth, not just the part where we feel like we’re never enough, but also the part where we’ve shown up, tried again, and kept going. You’re swapping shame for self-compassion. We’re reminding ourselves that being sensitive isn’t a flaw, it’s part of how we connect. That being “too much” just means we haven’t been in rooms that could hold us.

Today, choose one story you’ve been telling yourself that doesn’t serve you. Write it down. Look at it like you would if it belonged to someone you love. Then ask: What’s a more honest version of this story? Not a perfect version, just one rooted in kindness, truth, and a little more grace. Now write down your new story, underline it. Draw a heart next to it. Connect with it. Now scratch out your old story, it doesn’t serve you, and it never did.

The stories we tell ourselves shape everything, and we get to choose how they end.