This might piss you off (or make you scream YES!)

Let me shout out to my kind of people. Also those quiet ones in the back.

The ones watching, feeling it. The ones not fully buying what they're being fed anymore.

Let's get one thing straight: I'm definitely not here on earth to play small so everyone can stay comfortable. Not here to be obedient to abstract systems I never chose when I was born into this world. Not here to be a content, well fed and domesticated human.

In my own way, I'm standing up.

Not by following rules I never agreed to. Not by performing in systems that were never built for me.

Unpopular opinion: you cannot comply your way out of something that was designed to keep you small.

Yeah. I said it.

(If that makes you a little uncomfortable, that's usually where it gets interesting.)

You knów we are being played. Distracted. Kept busy, tired, slightly numbed out… just enough to not question too much.

But something is shifting. More and more people are seeing through it. Feeling the cracks, refusing to keep pretending everything is fine.

We're done. It's as simple as that.

This world ís going to change anyway. Not by fighting harder or screaming louder. But by us stepping out of the loop, one by one.

And here's the deal: that whole stepping out thingy is actually pretty simple.

Just say 'no' and start to create the life that you really, really want.

How?

Stop outsourcing your authority. (You do it on countless levels on a daily basis.) Stop waiting for permission. Start living by your own standards, setting your own boundaries. And sticking to that.

That's the code we need to crack. And once you see it… you can't unsee it.

I know most of you are reading this, nodding "yes", and at the same time feel a little deflated. "Okay… YES! But shit… now what?"

Good. That's exactly where you need to be.

Because yes, we ARE tired. Angry. Frustrated. Pretty desperate often too. Fed up with all the noise. The narratives. The control. The polarization. The manufactured crises. And most of us do not know where to start anymore.

Standing up for yourself came at a price too. Ruffling feathers and setting boundaries is not how we are supposed to behave. You made some noise. You wanted change. And you're still waiting for the rest of the world to catch up.

It all comes down to YOU.

Not everything around you. Not other people, not the world, not 'the system'. YOU.

Not fixing anything. You aren't broken. Not healing anything. That's a never ending story. Just keeping it simple. And having a little fun doing so.

Let's drop that whole "behave like an adult" thing right now. It's a trap. You can work hard and have fun doing it.

The time has come to play. To let it flow and be easy. And to find out what that means for you specifically.

This is exactly what I work on with people. If you feel the YES, you know where to find me.

Love, Annemarijn

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