In this episode of Girls With Opinions, we’re talking about what it means to be called — or feel like — you’re “too much.”

Too emotional. Too loud. Too opinionated. Too intense. Too sensitive. Too excited. Too needy. Too confident. Too honest. Too anything.

We get into how often “too much” is used to make people, especially women, shrink themselves into something easier to handle. We talk about the pressure to be likable, digestible, low-maintenance, and convenient — and how exhausting it is to constantly monitor yourself so other people feel comfortable.

This episode is about questioning who decided what “too much” even means, why we internalize it, and what it looks like to stop editing yourself for people who were never going to fully accept you anyway.

In this episode:

-What it means to feel like you’re “too much”

-How women are often pressured to shrink themselves

-The difference between self-awareness and self-abandonment

-Why being expressive, emotional, or opinionated isn’t automatically a flaw

-How to stop measuring yourself by other people’s comfort

You’ll walk away with:

-Validation if you’ve ever felt like you had to tone yourself down

-Permission to take up space

-A reminder that “too much” is often just “not for them”

-Encouragement to stop editing the parts of you that make you you

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Erin: @ErinBurnsWellness

Kristy: @KristyCastilloFit