30/05/2026
Today my 4-year-old showed me in 5 secs what most adults spend years forgetting.
I’m trying to clean her potty after she’d used it,
while she’s playing & successfully spilling all the p*e on the floor 🤦🏾♀️
So here I yell: “LIBERTAD!!!”
You know -that sharp, swallow-me-earth kind of tone 😅
She looks at me and say very calmly but firmly:
“If you talk to me like that, I will get mad and sad.”
Ooff. That touched something in me.
I didn’t know whether to cry or laugh of pride and gratitud for the woman she’s becoming.
Because what she did in that moment was HUGE.
She noticed how my tone impacted her.
She named her emotional experience.
She expressed a boundary.
And she did it without shutting down, exploding, or pretending she was okay.
I validated her immediately.
“You’re totally right. Mommy should not talk to you like that. I got upset, but that doesn’t justify the way I talked to you. I’m sorry, my love.”
And I thanked her for saying that.
We hugged tightly for a few minutes.
And she came back to play as if nothing had happened.
Those 5 seconds felt healing.
Because this is the kind of emotional safety I never had growing up.
The ability to tell my truth without fearing the withdrawal of love.
To say “that hurt me”,
without risking being punished, humiliated, ignored, or abandoned.
Most adults are still carrying relationships where being honest is dangerous.
So instead they push down their needs,
stay silent,
say Yes when they really mean No,
walk on eggshells,
or slowly build resentment while pretending everything is fine.
Because somewhere along the way, they learned that truth threatens connection.
And especially when we’re little, that connection means survival.
But what if the opposite was also possible?
What if honesty could deepen connection?
What if a boundary didn’t end the conversation but made us closer?
That’s what many people are starving for.
The experience of honouring their truth without losing the connection.
The reassurance of not having to perform or ppl-please to stay safe.
The relief of remembering
“Oh... maybe I’m not asking for too much after all.”
If that hits home, DARE TO BE is your next step.
What’s DARE TO BE you ask?🥰
It’s an embodied relating experience I designed for people done shrinking and ready to build something real.
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🗓️ June 20th
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Come experience what connection feels like when your nervous system no longer has to perform for it.