Oh yes! It's sooo happening.

THEE Cynthia Erivo, has come out with her new book "Simply More: A Book For Anyone Who Has Been Told They're Too Much."

And let me tell you...I'm goosified. So goosified that I just HAD TO BUY IT!...and so I did!

Here I am, proudly posted up with this fantastic piece of literature.

If some of you have been here before, you may know that I expressed in my last post how much the movie Wicked has changed my life. How the complex themes, characters, and my strong connection to Elphaba has ultimately impacted my worldview.

Additionally, if you didn't know, Cynthia Erivo is the actor behind Elphaba, but not only is she a singer and actor. She's also an author! I mean, how amazing.

She recently released her autobiography, which I believe is already a New York Times Bestseller. So many people are buying it and of course, I just had to join in.

What prompted me to buy her book, though? Well, automatically off reading the title, I knew the book was addressing people like me. "SIMPLY MORE: A Book For Anyone Who Has Been Told They're Too Much."

And let me tell you, OH. Trust me. I know A LOT about what it feels like to be told that you're too much. That you're too extravagant. That to be taken seriously, you need to CALM DOWN. That you need to tone it down. That YOU need to do the incomprehensible: YOU NEED TO DIM YOUR LIGHT.

But to that horrendous rhetoric? I say NO. I rebuke it. I simply disregard it.

An excerpt from the book quite LITERALLY shows us why we should not conform to society's close-minded standards in the prologue portion of her book:

"In order to be fully ourselves, we have to release ourselves from the fear of their judgments and ask ourselves, What do I really believe?

And then, we follow that." - (Cynthia Erivo, 1)

Wow. How inspiring.

Many of the fantastic BIG people with WORLD RENOWNED names and ideas that we know today are people who decided to show up as their TRUE SELVES, even when seeming delusional or deranged. They have complex and hard stories that could have pushed them back, but instead of succumbing to the standard, they fought, and they built something out of nothing! I mean, just look at Thomas Edison! Martin Luther King! Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, and so many more! You may not like all of them, but you CANNOT deny that they've made a profound impact upon this globe.

To you, reader, I encourage you not just today but EVERY DAY to truly dive into yourself. We're constantly changing all the time, and remember, to be human is to be changed. Search into your own biases. View yourself from an alternate perspective. Look at yourself in five years, ten years, or however many hours, days, or eternities you need to analyze yourself from and ask this question:

If your future self were to be looking at you now, would that version of you be proud?

If you cannot honestly say yes, then it's time to do some deep diving.

Basically, my whole point is to say BE FREE! BE FREE TO BE YOU! Show up as your truthful and authentic self every day. It's truly so liberating to live for you. To strive for your happiness. To show up as honestly as possible and to ultimately challenge the status quo.

Anyways, I am very, very grateful that I purchased Cynthia Erivo's book and I can't wait to be changed FOR GOOD even more! (Ya see what I did there? Hehe...Wicked fans will understand 😉) Anyway, that's all! If you made it this far...thank you for reading! Until next time, see ya!