✅EP 17 Not Seen — Turns Out That Was My Superpower All Along

✅ Subtitle: I faded into the background, shape-shifted to fit the room, and called it survival. But disappearing gave me clarity, and from that quiet space, I built something louder than approval: the real me. This is the first of the 7-part Adopt-a-Not series.

We're starting where the damage is quiet—where going unseen feels safer than being yourself.

In this debut episode, I pull back the curtain on Not Seen and the shape-shifting that ruled my life for way too long.

Inside this episode:

– The moment my mom admitted I caused her stress

—and how little I’d actually done

– My brother taking up space while I kept shrinking

– That memory at the ball hockey rink, where I showed up bold and still felt invisible –

Wearing bright colors, twisting myself into a human pretzel, and still missing the mark –

How praise for being easygoing helped erase me entirely.

I became a chameleon—first for my mom, then for my aunt—and eventually found a version of myself that belonged to neither.

That’s when Jax showed up.

This episode is about more than invisibility. It’s about clarity and how fading into the background gave me the space to hear me.

You’ll hear: – Why shape-shifting always costs more than it gives – What visibility really means (and it has nothing to do with volume) –

How disappearing became a superpower—because this time, I chose it

🌀 Not Seen kicks off a raw and honest series about the Nots we adopt to stay safe—when what we really crave is to feel seen, wanted, and true to who we are.

Quote to carry with you: “The cure to invisibility is showing up as your full, authentic self.”

🎧 Press play when you're ready to stop blending in—and start belonging to yourself.