A single joke can carry a lifetime of weight. Michelle opens up about the mother-in-law comments that seemed playful on the surface but hit a deep nerve, reigniting shame around sexuality, identity, and belonging. What starts as a family story becomes a blueprint for how high-achieving women can stop performing for approval, listen to their bodies, and draw boundaries that protect dignity. We walk through the uncomfortable middle: when a partner doesn’t notice the harm, when “respectin...
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A single joke can carry a lifetime of weight. Michelle opens up about the mother-in-law comments that seemed playful on the surface but hit a deep nerve, reigniting shame around sexuality, identity, and belonging. What starts as a family story becomes a blueprint for how high-achieving women can stop performing for approval, listen to their bodies, and draw boundaries that protect dignity. We walk through the uncomfortable middle: when a partner doesn’t notice the harm, when “respectin...
Stripping Away the Mask of Expectation Balancing Dreams and Expectations While Pregnant in College
We Wear The Masks
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1 week ago
Stripping Away the Mask of Expectation Balancing Dreams and Expectations While Pregnant in College
The world loves a tidy story: first-gen student, full scholarship, senior year, future secured. Then the plot twists, pregnancy upends the script, and the “golden child” glow collides with cultural, family, and personal expectations. Michelle opens the door to the moment everything changed and the long stretch after, where shame tried to set the tempo and achievement became a mask that looked like success but felt like distance. We walk through the rationalizations, the late-night plans, and...
We Wear The Masks
A single joke can carry a lifetime of weight. Michelle opens up about the mother-in-law comments that seemed playful on the surface but hit a deep nerve, reigniting shame around sexuality, identity, and belonging. What starts as a family story becomes a blueprint for how high-achieving women can stop performing for approval, listen to their bodies, and draw boundaries that protect dignity. We walk through the uncomfortable middle: when a partner doesn’t notice the harm, when “respectin...
