The Cost of Pretending: Escaping the Life That Isn’t Yours

About this episode

What if the version of you that everyone applauds… isn’t actually you? In this piercing episode of Real Raw Honest, we sit down with Sarah: a speaker and coach who holds space for women exhausted by the performance of pretending. Together, we tear through the layers of surface-level self-help, Instagram therapy, and toxic positivity to speak into something deeper: the discomfort of truth.We talk about what it means to outgrow the molds we never chose, the conditioning that shaped us based on where we were born, and the collective fear of diving into the real darkness that lives beneath our distractions.

This isn’t a conversation filled with steps, strategies, or fluff. It’s a call to face what we’ve been running from. A reckoning with the systems we silently uphold. And a reclamation of what’s real, raw, and unedited.If you’re done with small talk and tired of pretending things are fine; this one’s for you.