Positivity Isn’t Healing (It’s Avoidance) — How to Hear Your Own Voice Again

If “just think positive” actually worked… you wouldn’t be here.

In this episode, I’m joined by writer & coach Alli Gatlin, and we talk about why positivity can keep you stuck, how people edit themselves into silence, and what changes when you stop outsourcing your inner voice.

We go deep (and we laugh a lot) on:

1. Radical curiosity: stop trying to feel something, start learning something
2. Honesty: dropping the mask and telling the truth (to yourself first)
3. Shame: why it keeps you looping—and how to drop it
4. Boundaries: not rules for other people… authority inside you
5. Identity + self-trust: rebuilding your voice in small, doable moments

Connect with Alli:

1. Skool: skool.com/identitywritten/about
2. Substack: alligatlin.substack.com
3. IG/Threads: @alliegatlin

👉 Like, subscribe, and tell me in the comments: What’s one place you’ve been editing yourself—and what would honesty sound like instead?

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