When we're expanding, whether that's asking for more money, building a business, investing, or becoming more visible we often assume the biggest obstacles will be practical and that’s not true. The greatest challenge is often emotional.
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Fear of Being Seen: How Childhood Beliefs Keep You Small
It isn't that you don't want success. It's that being seen doesn't feel safe. In my work, I call this the vow of invisibility. It's an unconscious promise many of us make in childhood to stay small because somewhere along the way we learned that visibility came with a cost.