🎙️ EPISODE 2 : I Thought I Was an Introvert — Then I Learned the Name for My Silence
Labels, Silence, and the Story I Was Telling Myself Before you read further, you may want to listen to Episode 2 of Unmuted — I Thought I Was an Introvert — Then I Learned the Name for My Silence 🎙️ Listen on Spotify: This post expands on the reflections shared in the episode and offers space to pause, read, and return whenever you need quiet company. “Hey… you’ve put the wrong label on this.” my friend pointed to the glass jar she was holding. It was salt. Not sugar. A harmless mistake—but imagine if she’d added it to her cup of tea? Sometimes, a label seems harmless… until it changes the entire taste of something. Martina Navratilova, my favourite tennis player, once said: “Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.” And I’ve been thinking about that a lot. Because labels don’t just describe us. Sometimes, they decide how the world sees us. And worse—how we see ourselves. Ironically, it was a label that once helped me make...