Unsubscribe to the lies that we tell ourselves that keep us small.
There are lies that we tell ourselves that are loud and dramatic,
And the ones that we know that are lies,
Even as we're saying them.
And then there are the quieter ones,
The beliefs that become so interwoven into our identity,
That we stopped questioning them years ago.
They run silently in the background,
Draining energy,
Closing doors,
Keeping us disconnected from parts of ourselves that we actually want access to.
And because they've been there for so long,
We mistake them for the truth.
But here's what I've learned.
The moment that you identify a lie,
As a lie,
You can unsubscribe from it.
Just like that.
It no longer gets to inform your decisions.
It no longer gets to define your identity.
It no longer gets to quietly shape your life from behind the scenes.
You notice the leak,
You name it.
And you say,
Thank you for trying to protect me.
But we're done here.
Because honestly,
The solution is rarely buried somewhere deep and impossible to reach.
Usually,
It's just one layer down,
Close available,
Already waiting for us.
The lie was just blocking the doorway.
Some of mine for reference.
For a long time,
I carried this quiet belief that the best days were behind me.
I didn't even realize that I believed it until one day I did.
And then I understood something.
Every previous version of myself was leading me here.
None of them were meant to be the peak.
They were preparing me for right here right now.
The woman I was when I was 2030.
Even last year,
She wasn't the best version of me.
She was building me unsubscribed from that lie.
Another one.
I used to believe that stability would stifle me.
So I stayed in motion for years,
Constantly moving,
Constantly reinventing.
But what I actually needed was somewhere to land.
And when I finally allowed stability in,
It didn't suffocate me.
It actually supported me.
It gave me peace,
Creativity,
An outdoor bathtub,
And one of the most expansive seasons of my life.
Unsubscribe.
And then there was this classic,
I'm not good at time management.
I repeated it so many times,
It became a part of my personality.
Until one afternoon,
I made myself a beautiful color coded calendar that made me genuinely excited about my life.
And I remember thinking,
Wait,
That was a lie to the calendar wasn't hard.
The belief that it wasn't for me was the thing standing in the way.
And listen,
Some of these lies were trying to help us.
They protected us,
They managed expectations,
They kept us safe from disappointment.
Fair enough.
But eventually,
Protection can become limitation.
And that's usually the moment it's time to unsubscribe.
You don't need a big breakthrough.
You don't need to become a different person overnight.
You just need to catch one lie in the act.
One belief that no longer feels true.
One story that overstayed its welcome.
Because once you start noticing them,
They begin revealing themselves everywhere.
So maybe today,
A provocation is to ask yourself,
What am I still subscribed to?
That isn't actually true anymore.
Find the lie,
Name the lie,
Unsubscribe from the lie,
And let yourself move forward without it.
