When "no" is powerful

Because you said yes to yourself.

I said no.

Twice.

And not just to anything.
To the offer that every artist in town waits years to receive.

The old me? She would’ve said yes without blinking. Obligation ran the show.
If the offer was shiny, prestigious, or felt like “proof” I was good enough, I was all in—no matter the cost.

But the new me?
The one obsessed with just two things?
She knows b…