{"id":51,"date":"2026-08-14T18:19:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T18:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innerbloomlab.com\/about\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T19:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T17:43:25","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/innerbloomlab.com\/?page_id=51","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"51\" class=\"elementor elementor-51\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e408a90 e-con e-atomic-element e-flexbox-base e-e408a90-d7ffd8b \" data-id=\"e408a90\" data-element_type=\"e-flexbox\" data-e-type=\"e-flexbox\" data-interaction-id=\"e408a90\">\n    \t\t\t<h3 data-interaction-id=\"15018e0\" class=\"e-15018e0-88ca910 e-heading-base\">About me<\/h3>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b0dedb9 e-con e-atomic-element e-grid-base e-b0dedb9-8bc5a24 \" data-id=\"b0dedb9\" data-element_type=\"e-grid\" data-e-type=\"e-grid\" data-interaction-id=\"b0dedb9\">\n    \t\t\t<p class=\"e-b590c55-f8c4c66 e-paragraph-base\" data-interaction-id=\"b590c55\">There was a time when I thought I needed to fix myself.Today, I see things differently.&nbsp;I didn't grow up without love. My parents did their best and gave us everything we needed. From the outside, everything looked fine. And yet, even as a child, I felt that something depended on me.I learned early that peace in the family was tied to how I behaved. If I was quiet, easygoing, agreeable - everything was fine. If I wasn't, there was no shouting, no punishment in the usual sense. There was silence. Being ignored. That strange feeling of being present, yet somehow not seen.It shaped me more than I wanted to admit for a long time. I learned to apologize even when I didn't feel I'd done anything wrong. I learned to adapt, to understand everyone else before understanding myself. My feelings didn't have much room. If I cried, I was \u201ctoo sensitive.\u201d Slowly, I started believing I had to be different for things to be okay.For a long time, this felt normal. I was someone who saw the good in others, who gave second chances, who adapted easily. A nice quality - until it costs you yourself.The real shift didn't happen overnight. It began when I met my husband. For the first time, I felt I didn't have to guess what was \u201cright.\u201d I could be who I was, without fear of losing the relationship because of it.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"e-4f67ac7-98139c6 e-paragraph-base\" data-interaction-id=\"4f67ac7\">That slowly changed my decisions. First, I moved out - despite resistance at home. That was my first real act of independence, and for the first time, what I felt afterward was mostly peace and happiness, not guilt. Other decisions followed, not always understood: I left a job in the public sector for a private-sector role with far more responsibility - a move where I was openly asked whether I'd actually be able to handle it. I also started learning to set boundaries, in ways that weren't always well received.It wasn't always easy. I was called irresponsible, too different, sometimes simply wrong. But for the first time, I knew - not because I had all the answers, but because I had started listening to myself.Today, I no longer believe I need to \u201cfix\u201d myself. I believe I need to understand myself. I'm still growing, still learning, and sometimes I still react differently than I'd like. But the difference is - I don't lose myself in it anymore.I'm not trying to be \u201cright\u201d for others anymore. 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