

When ‘Shy’ Becomes Your Identity: How Confidence Gets Lost Along the Way
In this bonus episode, Lisa Hopper reflects on how being labelled - and later labelling herself - as “shy” slowly became an identity, shaping her confidence, choices, and sense of self without her even realising it. What began as a single childhood experience quietly influenced how she showed up in relationships,…
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