Chapter 4 - The Fairy Tale That Failed Us: Reclaiming Love, Power & Self-Worth
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What if everything you believed about love, worth, and being “chosen” was never yours to begin with?
In this chapter of Burn It Down & Begin Again, Erica peels back the layers of cultural conditioning, Disney fantasies, and internalized beliefs that shaped her understanding of love — and ultimately left her lost in a life she no longer recognized.
This episode is not about bitterness. It’s about clarity. It’s about burning down the scripts we were handed and finally beginning again on our own terms.
Erica unpacks:
- How Disney princesses and 1950s ideals shaped our view of love and self-worth
- Why so many women lose themselves in “being chosen”
- The silent grief of invisible labor, emotional burnout, and unreciprocated love
- The financial and emotional cost of midlife divorce
- Why choosing peace and wholeness can be the new happily ever after
- How we begin rewriting the narrative — for ourselves and our daughters
If you’ve ever felt unseen in your own relationship, stuck in a story that doesn’t fit, or ready to reclaim the pen and write your own ending — this episode is for you.
Because love shouldn’t hurt. And your story deserves a better ending than the one they wrote for you.
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