No more playing small

You know those seemingly small moments in your life
where you gave away your power?

Those little moments
that have significant effect on the course of your lived experience
on your essential choices
your deepest relationships
you embracing you going BIG

Like the butterfly effect
that little moment flaps and moves
ripples out
changing and bending your destiny

When I was seven years old and was told all I believed and asked about
past lives
witches
the Universe
were merely fairy tales
that I didn’t know

When I was seventeen and the boss of a large modelling agency held my face
looked me up and down and told me I was almost tall and thin enough for success

When I was eight and moved from the city to the country side
and noticed for the first time I was different
and that that was not OK

That being different
alternative
expressive
smart
was too much
That I was excluded because of it

Now, when I am told I’m different
or shamanic
or that I believe in fairy tales
When I am told I am too much
too sensitive
too daring
too sensual
or when anyone would hold my face
telling me I am almost good enough
I’d laugh at them
Knowing they are merely reflecting their ache
their fear of stepping into their bigness

And I’d thank them
with a loving heart
for reminding me
I am on the right path

For if I’m not triggering the world
with my voice
my truth
my story

I’d be dancing to their terms
I’d have bowed to the comfortable
that would’ve dimmed my soul 
I would be playing small