In this episode, I talk about choosing myself in rooms where it would’ve been easier to blend in. Times when peer pressure tried to tell me who to be, how to act, what to accept—but I didn’t let it rewrite my values. I didn’t always have the words, but I had conviction. I knew who I didn’t want to become, even before I fully knew who I was.

My Self Love Story is not about waking up confident every day. It’s about the quiet decisions I made when no one was clapping for me. It’s about learning to sit with myself, listen to my own voice, and trust it—especially when the world was loud with opinions, expectations, and pressure. This is my story of self-love growing slowly—through boundaries, through saying no, through standing alone sometimes and being okay with it.

It’s about honoring my pace, my faith, my softness, and my strength. A Self Love Story is me, Shuga Rose, choosing authenticity over approval—and discovering that loving myself was the bravest thing I ever did.