your fear of BEING SEEN is holding you back from your fullest potential...let's change that

This video happened at the perfect time for me to hear what I needed to hear. It’s especially difficult to allow yourself to be seen when you’ve been through so much trauma. It’s also especially difficult to really live your life to the fullest from a hiding place. Here’s to courage and bravery, and letting our freaking lights shine!!

i have this fear. i've seen my ideas be fulfilled by others and have even experienced jealousy to the point where I had to get off of social media completely. it took years of growth to realize that i was indeed the problem all along. now, i'm out here chasing my dreams and making myself seen, shamelessly. thanks for the amazing video love <3

"There's something really cool about you that needs to be shared with the world...If you're not doing that, you really are depriving all of us of the magic in you" I had to run that back a couple times ❤

I know my fear of being seen has to do with being labelled as a "gifted" kid growing up - sometimes when you sparkle, people won't attack/dim your "shine"; they'll exploit it and exhaust it instead. There's always that little voice in my head that says, "if you show up fully as you are, people will just take and take and take from you until there's nothing left to give" / "if you do something wonderful or great, you'll be expected to maintain that same level of success/achievement forever and never be able to put it down and rest" - so instead of fully, genuinely showing up, I dim my light so that no one will ever really expect too much of me, in case the responsibility of success is too much for me to handle. (Self-sabotage is literally the worst, lol). I found your comments about children/childhood really helpful; growing up, I felt so much pressure to study and excel and perform and succeed and "live up to my potential", I barely had any fun at all (being parentified didn't help the situation either). That's something I still really struggle with; perfectionism and relaxing and just enjoying things as they are. Thank you for your insight - I hope you have a great day!

I feel like this is what's holding me back from wanting jobs with more responsibilities n better pay

Def body image has been a big one for me. I've literally listened to this like three times already. Such a good episode for the self conscious but secretly dope girlies!

I am currently a teacher’s assistant and let me tell you… kids will bring you out of your shell. They don’t care about what you look like, they just want you to join in their shenanigans.

besides my fear of being seen, I enjoy my privacy and not having a digital footprint. I go through phases where I'm simply not interested in strangers seeing my life or trying to network with people because of spiritual hygience. I don't want to subject myself to the possibility of having to know people that un-know them because we're no longer cool or because I have to 'heal' from them

The fear of being seen is probably why I always feel invisible, so thank you for this video!!! :)

I’m not playing small no more. I’m focusing on myself and growth and improving my life. I’m no longer accepting being fat. And gone work on my self sabotage and work towards losing weight and everyone finding me pretty and doing stuff on social media and people loving me for me. You spoke the truth. All my life I was outcast and at 30 I’m not accepting that and gotta stop caring and depend on discipline and consistency and been doing so good. Thanks for this video.

it makes me so uncomfortable thinking that other people have a perception of me and can think about me and see me differently from how I view myself. I've always had social anxiety and I'm veryyy scared to be judged and that makes me tone down my personality. I also carry a lot of shame which correlates with all of this, wanting to hide and not be seen for who I am, not wanting the spotlight in case I mess up and questioning if I even deserve attention.

I needed this. I dimmed my own light for a whole year, all for an emotionally unavailable situationship, trying not to make THEM feel insecure, all for nothing. Still trying to get back to who I used to be. If someone reading this is going through the same thing: don't ever change in order to please someone, no matter how much you love them. No one is worth losing yourself over. If they love you, they will love you when you are yourself. ❤

The fear of being seen is SO REAL especially when you grow up and realize the world and people are not how we used to see them when we were young and innocent.. It hits hard. It can get so comfortable just being unseen unbothered and unheard.. BUT does it make you happy? Do you feel fulfilled? If the answer is no, the it's time to get back the real you. Am on this journey.

I have always been shy growing up, and it has always been hard for me to let people in and see my true self. I think because I was accustomed to ppl leaving, so I didn’t allow myself to form relationships. I got so used to just being alone or the odd one out. I liked that you pointed out doing the things you did as child. I used to take hella selfies and now I don’t because sometimes i don’t like the way I look. I have been working on my confidence and allowing myself to take more pictures. ❤

I'm in my mid-fifties, and let me tell you, this is solid life advice! Live like B is telling you to, and you will get to my age with zero regrets... ❤

A lot of people don’t talk about the fear of being fully seen and exposed to the world in order to attract our dream life. Its a blockage for a lot of us. I appreciate u opening this topic.

I do because I've been bullied about literally everything about myself, by friends ,family and strangers ;my body, my intelligence, personality, the way I talk , dress . It just makes me want to disappear and be invisible, like you said I don't want to be perceived . Even when interacting with others I feel scared to be authentically myself . I just hide in my shell . I also have a problem with oversharing lol . Then it just puts me back at square 1 😅.

God literally used you to speak to me Bria. You’re an angel ❤

I think the most difficult of things for me to accept would be that not everyone would like me, its such a burden to want everyone to like you. Here's to me not being afraid of being seen anymore . thank you for this video Bria.

Not being seen is my comfort zone. Stepping out of my comfort zone in 2024…..