What does it actually mean to be empowered and expressive? Because you can be confident enough to speak your mind and still spend your life making decisions based on what other people will think. You can have a voice and still be afraid to use it. You can know exactly what you want and still find yourself saying, “Whatever works for everyone else.” You can tell other people to be themselves while quietly editing yourself every day. So perhaps being empowered and expressive is

We hear these phrases all the time. Express yourself. Be yourself. Let people see the real you. It sounds simple enough. But what does it actually mean? Does expressing yourself mean saying exactly what you think? Does it mean telling people how you feel? Does it mean dressing differently, being creative, speaking your mind or refusing to follow the crowd? It can mean all of those things. But self expression is much bigger than that. In its simplest form, self expression is a

There is something quite interesting about the way we encourage other people to be themselves. We tell our friends to speak their mind. We tell our children to be confident. We tell someone who is changing careers to follow what they really want. We admire the person who walks into a room and seems completely comfortable being exactly who they are. We even encourage people to stop worrying so much about what everyone else thinks. Yet somehow, when it comes to ourselves, many