When you set boundaries, some relationships end. The speaker found that people who don't fit your authentic self get replaced by those who do. Writing on Substack freed up energy previously spent managing others' expectations, which boosted their creativity.
when we begin to set and maintain those boundaries, a lot of those relationships will fall. That goes kind of back to the beginning. We were talking about, you know, the messiness or the nonlinearity of, if that's even a word, of healing and of moving into authenticity. But the good thing is, as I've found, is that, and I'd love to know what you found as well, is the people that fall away are often replaced by others who are more aligned with our authenticity or whatever version, you know, we're living at that time. And, you know, another big thing for me, especially talking about writing newsletters on Substack is creativity. Over the past couple of years, my creativity has absolutely exploded because again, I'm turning all of the energy that I was using to take on and put on different masks for different people in different situations and clinging to expectations and clinging to how I wanted people to perceive me.
