TheUnravel

What if the way you've learned to survive, belong, or keep the peace has also taught you to make yourself smaller?

In the first episode of TheUnravel, Prisca explores the quiet ways we shrink ourselves: softening our ideas, asking for less, waiting to speak, adjusting constantly, and becoming so easy for everyone else that we become difficult for ourselves to fully live with.

Using the simple act of walking on tiptoe as a metaphor, this episode asks what happens when we spend years trying not to take up too much space.

Especially when you're building something your family, community, or environment has never seen before.

You don't have to become louder.

You don't have to become arrogant.

You don't have to become somebody else.

You may simply need to stop confusing gentleness with absence.

Because there is a difference between taking up space and occupying your space.

Perhaps your footprint was never supposed to look like somebody else's.

Put your whole foot down.

Leave the mark.