Welcome back to the blog version of Episode 14 of the Level Up Your Selfie Podcast! 📻 This one's a cosmic glitter bomb ✨💫 of truth, play, and radical self-acceptance. If you’ve ever felt like you needed to tone it down, hide your weird, or stay in someone else’s box just to be liked—this post is your spiritual permission slip to say: BYE 🚩💕
Part 1: Break Up with the Old You 💔🚀
Let’s be real—you are not a museum exhibit. You are not here to be stuck in someone else’s memory of who you used to be. People from your past might say, “Wow, you’ve changed,” and honestly? GOOD 👌💜 You’re supposed to. If the old you was shrinking, filtering, and people-pleasing, then growth is your greatest glow-up 💡🌟
I once ran into someone who clearly wasn’t ready for my rainbow boots 🌈, glitter brows 💅, and zero-f***s aura 🪩. They blinked, stared, and hit me with the classic, "You've changed." I laughed, and in my head I thought: You're damn right I did. The old me was scared. This version? She's moisturized, mentally upgraded, and mildly feral. You're welcome. 🫣💖
So yes, you’ve changed. And the ones who don’t celebrate that? They can scroll back to 2016. 👇📝
Part 2: The Illusion of Being Digestible 🍼🧵
There’s this pressure to be likable. To be relatable. To be just enough sparkle to light up a room, but not so much that someone has to put on shades 😎🔦. That’s the illusion of being "digestible" — and babe, it’s a trap ⛔️.
Trying to be easy to swallow will leave you choking on your own truth 😮. You are not here to be beige wallpaper in someone else's perfectly curated aesthetic. You are a full buffet of contradictions—joyful, deep, weird, wild, soft, loud, healing, evolving 🌈🌿🌧️🫂
You weren’t born to be neutral. You were born to be noticed. 🎉 And the more you unfilter your truth, the more magnetic you become 💛. If your sparkle makes someone uncomfortable? They weren’t meant to bask in your glow anyway 🌟💕
Part 3: Embarrassment Is a Portal to Power 🌌😱🌟
We’ve been taught to avoid embarrassment like it’s the plague. But here’s a reframe: embarrassment is just ego detox. 🪨 It means you dared. You showed up. You did the thing, even if it was messy 🍃🙌
Whether you posted that crying selfie 😭, danced off-beat in public 🎉🎶, or admitted you had no clue what you were doing—that wasn't cringe, babe. That was courage. 🚀💕
Cringe is sacred. It means you're out there living instead of curating. It means you're growing. And growth? It's rarely graceful, but always powerful 🌸🙏
Final Words: Shine Anyway 💫🔥
Every version of you is worthy. The crying-you. The thriving-you. The trying-to-figure-it-out-you. The glitter-drenched, awkward, healing, divine YOU 🪩💜💫
You don't need to be everyone's vibe. You need to be your own 😍
So go on. Shine weird. Shine loud. Shine anyway 🌈🔦
And if anyone says you’re too much? Just smile and say, "Too much for who, though?" 😏🦄
Love you, mean it. Extra RainbOH!w Sparkles Upon You. Always. ✨🦄💦🌈
-- Angelina Mi Lajki 🌟
