Are You Betraying Yourself Just to Belong?
How False Belonging Shows Up in Your Body and What It Takes to Stand in Your Truth?
Have you ever felt like you had to shrink yourself just to fit in?
Maybe you say yes when you want to say no. Maybe you avoid conflict at all costs, even when it costs you your truth.
Maybe you feel like you don’t even know what you want anymore.
This is false belonging. It is the illusion of connection at the cost of integrity.
In my latest YouTube video, I break down:
The hidden ways false belonging shows up in your life
Why we freeze, fawn, and conform and how to stop
A simple embodiment exercise to reclaim your integrity
False belonging is not just emotional. It is also physiological. When you ignore your needs to keep the peace, your body pays the price.
Some of us collapse inward, making ourselves smaller, shoulders caved in, breath shallow.
Others push through with rigid determination, carrying tension in the jaw, forcing confidence rather than embodying it.
Some of us toggle between the two, feeling stretched between conflicting ways of being.
Your posture is more than how you stand. It is a physical record of how you have learned to survive.
If you have spent years shrinking yourself in your voice, in your choices, in your body, this is your invitation to reclaim your space.
The 40-Day Posture Bootcamp is not just about posture. It is about rewiring your body to hold confidence, breaking free from physical patterns of fawning, freezing, and conforming, and training yourself to embody presence, integrity, and ease.
Doors are open now. The program starts May 1st. Use code RECLAIMMYPOSTURE for $100 off (Early Bird Pricing ends March 25th)
Register here: https://hedishah.gumroad.com/l/posture-bootcamp
Where have you noticed this in your body? When do you shrink yourself physically? Hit reply and let me know.
Thank you for joining me on the path of unconditioning,
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Hedi Shah
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👁️ Bodyworker & Mindfulness Teacher
🌊 Teaching change makers to uncondition themselves from systemic conditioning and create a sovereign life filled with creativity, vitality, and trust through the magic of movement and mindfulness.
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