Choosing Yourself: The Stories
A Global Interactive Exhibit
Women around the world are choosing themselves over comfort, approval, and keeping the peace. This is their story collection.
What This Is
An ongoing digital exhibit featuring real stories from women who decided to center themselves instead of everyone else.
The Stories We're Collecting
Real moments of choosing yourself:
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Leaving relationships that looked good on paper but felt wrong
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Choosing financial security over others' feelings
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Stopping the pattern of shrinking to make others comfortable
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Prioritizing your body and well-being over external expectations
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Designing family and career on your own terms
Not the highlight reel version. The actual moment you said "enough" and chose yourself.
Why This Matters
These aren't just individual transformation stories. They're documentation of a cultural shift happening globally. When you see story after story of women choosing themselves across different countries, backgrounds, and circumstances, patterns emerge.
You start to see that choosing yourself isn't selfish or unusual. It's part of a larger movement of women reclaiming power that we were taught never belonged to us.
Your Story Belongs Here
If you've chosen yourself in any area of your life, your story could help another woman see what's possible.
What we're looking for:
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Honest accounts of choosing yourself over external expectations
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Stories that show what changed when you centered yourself
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Real experiences that might inspire other women
How to share:
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Brief story summary (2-3 sentences)
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Full story via video (up to 2 minutes) or detailed written account
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Your location for the global map
How your story will be used: Featured on our interactive map, across social media, newsletter, podcast, and in future book projects as part of documenting this cultural movement.
Ready to add your voice to this global collection?