Laura Henshaw

not caring what people think, which I feel like is such a common thing that maybe people say going into their 30s.

But everything I did, I was like, how will this person perceive me?

What will this person think?

And I wasn't in my power per se because I didn't feel like I could speak up for what I believed in because I would question like, oh, I'm not an expert in that.

I'm not good enough to talk about that.

Maybe someone will disagree with me.

And

Letting go of like living my life for how other people will perceive me has been the most amazing.

It's honestly like it's changed my life.

I will say with a caveat.

Going through motherhood has felt a little bit like I went back in the milkshake maker and I'm still rebuilding that a little bit.

But it's just enabled me, I feel like, to feel my true self, which is how we should always feel.

But in my 20s, I didn't feel like I could, like I didn't trust myself at all.

I just felt like I had to almost be like a chameleon to make everyone feel comfortable around me.

I'm trying to think of a big life decision.

It might be deciding to move overseas, right?

And you think about when you're thinking through that decision, you think about what will this friend think of me?

Like, what will my parents think of me?

All of these other people.

You are the only person that is going to be impacted by that decision, really.