Pleasing colleagues. Pleasing your boss. Pleasing you friends. Pleasing your family. Pleasing your partner. These are the thoughts that race through my head daily. Every move I make is so calculated, so thought out, and the constant chatter that engulfs my mind and body is: What do people think of me? It is so exhausting, being a person whose entire self-confidence, self-love, and happiness comes from other people's perceptions of me. Even when I am being "authentic" there is a lens to it- I will be only authentic enough to please the people around me. I will seem wholesome, and pure, and content because this is valued. But at the same time when I smile and take a picture I am sucking in my stomach, showing off a new outfit, wearing make up, so I can show the world that yes, I have it all- I am whole, and beautiful, and confident, and happy. It is all completely not genuine and I am calling myself out in this post. I have always let the world around me infl...