The Softly Unmasking podcast

Have you ever been told that you're too sensitive, too emotional or that you take things too personally?

In this episode, we explore why sensitivity is so often treated as a weakness, and what happens when we learn to hide the parts of ourselves that others find difficult to understand.

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In this episode, I talk about that tension, the guilt and comparison that can come with needing a slower rhythm, and learning to accept that resting is not the opposite of living.

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What happens when you stop making men the centre of your life?

In this episode, I talk about what it meant to spend years auditioning for men, worrying about whether they liked me, changing myself to be chosen, and putting my own life on hold for the possibility of love.

Decentering men isn't about rejecting relationships or wanting men less. It's about coming back to yourself, asking what you actually want, and building a life that doesn't have to wait for someone else to arrive.

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What happens when being easy becomes a way of disappearing?

In this episode, I explore the hidden cost of always being accommodating, flexible, and easy to be around, and what happens when we start choosing ourselves instead.

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In this episode of Softly Unmasking, I take you back to the beginning.

I talk about my childhood, the experiences that shaped me, the ways I learned to adapt and mask, and how I came to realise that so much of what I thought was simply “who I am” was actually something I had learned to do.

This is the story of how I got here, and why I am now choosing to unmask softly, honestly and in my own time.

Because sometimes the question isn't “What's wrong with me?”

Sometimes it's:

“Who am I when I stop trying so hard to be who I'm supposed to be?”

In this first episode of Softly Unmasking, I share how I began to realise I was neurodivergent as an adult, what masking looked like in my life, and why I decided to start this gentle journey of coming home to myself.