Mixed Messages Extra: An extract from Megan Jayne Crabbe's We Don't Make Ourselves Smaller Here, plus win a copy

"You deserve to exist as your biggest, unapologetic and most whole self. You always have done."

Hi, welcome to Mixed Messages Extra! This week, we’re giving you a sneak peek from author and presenter Megan Jayne Crabbe’s new book, We Don’t Make Ourselves Smaller Here.

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Next week, you’ll hear Megan talk about having to ‘come out’ as Black, realising the boxes her body was never meant to fit into and the policing of mixed people.

Out today, her new book We Don’t Make Ourselves Smaller Here lays bare all the ways we shrink ourselves in today's world, and how to break free. From bad break ups to sexual shame, toxic productivity to body ideals, Megan interrogates all the ways that cultural and internal narratives diminish us and explores what we can do to ditch social pressures and live life as our fullest and boldest selves.

One chapter I know will resonate with you is Identity, where Megan writes about her mixed heritage. I’m excited to bring you an extract from it today, before the full interview on Monday.

Read it below, plus find out how you can win a copy of We Don’t Make Ourselves Smaller Here.

Win a copy of We Don’t Make Ourselves Smaller Here