How You Stopped Speaking In Your Own Voice.

Everyone, at some point, has been told that their natural expression is too much.

Too honest. Too direct. Too disruptive. Too intense. Too idealistic. Too unconventional.

Sometimes it comes from people who are genuinely trying to protect you. It can come from parents who know the world can be unkind, partners who worry about the risk, or colleagues who've been burned by going out on a limb. Their caution comes from love, or from their own fear, or both.