✨ Unshrink Yourself: Reclaiming Power Like a Hex-Wielding Phoenix ✨

You’ve spent years making yourself small.

Small enough to fit someone else’s comfort zone.
Small enough to avoid their anger, their judgment, their disappointment.
Small enough to survive.

And that shrinking? It wasn’t weakness. It was strategy. It was protection. It was magic of its own—the magic of endurance.

But you were never meant to stay small.
You were never meant to fold yourself into corners.
You were never meant to live in the space between your own dreams.

It’s time to unshrink. To take up space. To spread your singed wings, rise from the ash, and hex the hell out of the expectations that tried to cage you.

🔥 Why We Shrink Ourselves

From childhood, from trauma, from patriarchy, from capitalism, from systems designed to keep us small—we learn to shrink.
We learn that quiet is safer than loud.
That agreeable is safer than fierce.
That invisible is safer than seen.

We shrink to survive.
But survival is not where the story ends.

🕯 Signs You’re Still Shrinking

• You say “sorry” for existing.
• You over-explain every decision.
• You downplay your wins so others don’t feel uncomfortable.
• You make yourself smaller—physically, emotionally, energetically—when you sense judgment.

🌙 Rituals to Reclaim Your Space

Name-Your-Power Spell:
Write down every part of yourself you’ve hidden—your rage, your brilliance, your queerness, your witchiness, your art, your voice. Say each aloud. Then burn the list or bury it beneath a stone—not to destroy yourself, but to release the shame, fear, and silence that tried to bury those truths. Let the earth or the flame free what never belonged to you in the first place.

Mirror Affirmation:
Stand eye to eye with your reflection. Whisper at first if you must, then louder, bolder:
“I am not small. I am not sorry. I take up space. I am the storm.”

Hex-the-Cage Charm:
Find a small object that symbolizes the box you were forced into—a snapped twig, a broken chain, a cracked stone. Charge it with your intent to break free. Carry it as a reminder that you no longer fit inside walls built to contain you.

Phoenix Breath:
Breathe in, arms wide, chest open, as if you’re pulling your wings back. Breathe out like a gust of ash clearing the air. Feel your body expand, your energy unfurl. Repeat until you feel your full size.

🖤 Daily Micro-Actions of Reclamation

• Claim physical space: stretch, sprawl, dance big.
• Say no and leave it at that. No apology. No reason. Just no.
• Wear what makes you feel huge, whether that’s a loud color, a flowing garment, or a talisman that hums with your power.
• Set a boundary. Just one. Even if it terrifies you.
• Write down one thing you love about your too-muchness every day.

🖤 Final Hex of Wisdom

You are not too much.
You are not too loud, too wild, too big, too intense.
You are exactly enough for the life that’s waiting for you—once you stop shrinking to fit the wrong one.

The match is in your hand. The box is paper. Burn it down. Unshrink yourself.

✨ Tell Me How You’re Unshrinking

What’s one way you’ve reclaimed space in your life? What’s one part of you you’re done hiding?
💬 Share your fire in the comments—let’s build a phoenix’s grimoire together.

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