About the author
Hey, I'm Irina.
For most of my life I was the insecure one. I performed confidence I didn't have and hid everything that felt too real, too much, too me. I sucked my stomach in, airbrushed my photos, and couldn't say what I actually wanted out loud.
I'm not her anymore. Not because I got fixed, but because I figured out how it actually works, how you go from hiding to expressed, and how the confidence shows up once you do. That's the part I couldn't shut up about. So I put it in a book, for you.
Creativity isn't a hobby. It's a way of life. It's been with me through grief, through heartbreak, through the good times, and it's the thing that made me feel like I could survive all of it. It's where my confidence came from.
The confidence that got me singing my own songs on stage in front of a live audience, and racking up millions of views on my videos, is the same confidence that had me move across the world on my own and build a whole life in Bali. Not because I set out to be brave. Because when you stop performing and start expressing, you stop asking permission to live.
Come find me on Instagram, @lrina_petrosyan →
