Have you ever been so focused on getting someone to like you that you forgot to ask yourself if you even liked them?
I think so many of us have been there.
We edit ourselves, second-guess what we say, try to be a little more interesting, a little less needy, a little more like whoever we think the other person wants.
And sometimes we don't even realize we're doing it.
I had such a fun and refreshingly honest conversation with
@serenakerrigan about this.
Serena has built a whole brand around confidence and dating, but one of the things I love about her story is her realization that even confidence can become a performance.
And that learning to let someone see the real you, including your insecurities, takes a different kind of courage.
We also get into why we're drawn to emotionally unavailable people, how to stop treating rejection as a verdict on our worth, and what changes when we start approaching dating from a place of actually knowing and valuing ourselves.
Because here'...