Why Imitation Doesn’t Equal Admiration – Healing Your Inner Child to Stand Out in a Sea of Sameness
- Brainz Magazine
- Aug 7
- 5 min read
With a master's degree and a wealth of personal experience, she guides women through radical self-evolution using innovative, holistic approaches. Sherisse's unique methodology, born from overcoming her own adversities, focuses on forging indestructible embodiment and authentic empowerment.
You see it. She’s using your language, mirroring your tone, riffing off your signature idea. Maybe part of you feels flattered, but there’s another part, a younger part, that feels unsettled, even threatened.
Imitation, especially in an industry saturated with bold branding and magnetic offers, doesn’t always feel like admiration. Sometimes it feels like theft, invisibility, or erasure.
So, let’s talk about it, not from the lens of drama or gossip, but from a soul-led, heart-wide-open place. If you’ve ever wondered:
“Is she inspired, or is she copying?” Then this is your invitation to zoom out, tune in, and reclaim your inner power.
The industry of imitation
We’re in a time where originality is currency, and yet it feels like everyone is speaking the same language, wearing the same archetypes, and launching carbon-copy offers.
When you’ve spent years doing the deep work, healing, integrating, and building your expression from the inside out, seeing your voice echoed back through someone else’s platform can feel like a gut punch.
Especially if your inner child still remembers being left out, ignored, or overlooked.
You wonder:
Am I overreacting?
Is this just how things are now?
Why does this hurt so much?
The inner child wound behind the trigger
Let’s go deeper.
When you were a child, making friends was easy. There was curiosity, play, and innocence. You didn’t compete to be liked; you just were. Shared space, shared joy, shared energy.
But somewhere along the way, society taught us something different:
“There’s only room for one.”
Suddenly, another woman’s shine became a threat. Her rise meant your fall. The system (yes, the patriarchal one) quietly taught us to see each other not as sisters, but as rivals. Comparison became second nature. And shame snuck in when we didn’t measure up.
That shame? It’s the very thing that pushes us into performance.
It’s what pulls high-achieving women out of their hearts and into their heads, into hustle, into over-explaining, into masculine tendencies of proving and producing, all as an unconscious strategy to avoid feeling not enough.
But in avoiding shame, we also cut ourselves off from connection to our inner child, to our creativity, to each other.
No wonder imitation feels like betrayal; it’s hitting the parts of us that crave recognition, safety, and belonging.
Reframing imitation: It's not about you
Let’s be clear: when someone imitates you, they’re not trying to be you. They’re trying to access the part of themselves that you’ve given permission to express.
Your voice? It activated them.
Your presence? It woke something up.
Your embodiment? It reminded them of their own potential.
But when that activation is unconscious or unintegrated, it can come out as mimicry instead of ownership.
And while it’s not your job to police, defend, or manage anyone else’s projections, it is your responsibility to stay rooted in your own truth.
The real invitation: Return to play, power, and sisterhood
If we want to rise in a new paradigm of feminine leadership, we must heal the wound of separation.
What does that look like?
More play: Reconnect with the inner child who created for the joy of it. Follow the sparks. Dance with ideas. Make it fun again.
More connection: Instead of isolating or armoring up when you feel triggered, reach out. Brainstorm. Collaborate. Share voice notes. Start conversations that celebrate expression, not compete with it.
More truth: If something feels off, say it. With grace. With power. With an open heart. We don’t need more women holding grudges; we need more women holding space.
Less possessiveness: Your magic can’t be stolen. Your frequency is encoded in your being. Let go of gripping. Let go of guarding. Trust that what’s yours will always find its way.
More unity: We’re not here to climb over each other. We’re here to rise together. When one woman expands, she expands the field for us all.
Let’s lead differently
You are not for replication. You are a living, breathing, evolving embodiment of your own path.
And when you feel the urge to retreat, defend, or doubt, remember this:
There’s space for everyone, but your voice was made to take up space in a way only you can.
So, breathe. Play. Collaborate. Let go. Rise.
Because imitation may happen, but your essence can never be duplicated.
Feeling this deep in your soul?
If this stirred something in you, if you’ve felt unseen, triggered, or subtly doubted, I want you to know: your experience is valid.
But it’s not where the story ends.
Inside my Inner Power Portal, we go beyond the noise. You’ll be held in a sacred space where your voice is nurtured, your inner child is heard, and your leadership becomes unshakably embodied.
If you’re ready to be seen, supported, and celebrated for your true self, not a performance, not a persona, my 1:1 journeys are open.
You can lead with softness.
You can rise in integrity.
You can take up space and invite others to do the same.
The time for separation is over.
The revolution is rooted in sisterhood.
Let’s walk it together.
Podcast: Permission to Shine
Sherisse Bisram, Inner Power Activation Leader + Intuitive Healer
Sherisse is the embodiment of everything she stands for: authentic strength, loyalty, and empowerment. Although, the journey to get there did not come easy. Growing up in a volatile household and as a woman of colour in a predominantly white area added understandable hardships, and like all young women, Sherisse faced unwanted attention. In addition, she was undermined by society for being outspoken in her opinion rather than playing to the expected norm of being “seen and not heard.” Understandably, she was forced to build resilience, and as a result, at 23, she noticed that she had difficulty showing vulnerability and emotions. Sherisse realised that this was not a healthy way to live, and with this in mind, she decided to embark upon her own journey of self-discovery.
Combining her self-evolution, education, and life experiences, Sherisse has gained tools that have helped her to release the pain of her past, understand and conceptualise her emotions, and regain true, authentic strength. These tools, which consist of meditation and mindset work, journaling, and mindful movement, have shaped her into the empowered, confident woman she is today. These practices have had a tremendous impact on her life. Sherisse believes that sharing these tools with others, with the incorporation of dance through her workshops, classes, and programs, will, in turn, help whomever she teaches become the healthiest, happiest, and most confident versions of themselves.
