Do you have an idea in your head of who you want to be? Have you come to the realization that this woman, the one that got you this far, no longer works for you? Have you ever envisioned the kind of person you would like to be? You know that girl… confident, self-assured and self-reliant. The one who speaks her mind. The risk-taker. The one who found her voice.
You don’t necessarily need to have your heart broken from a relationship to feel this kind of turmoil. For many of us, this revelation comes when we identify things we wanted to do in life but never got the chance. For whatever reason.
Maybe we wanted to travel the world. Maybe we willingly gave up a career for children. Perhaps a health scare left you sidelined and your priorities changed. Maybe you put your life and dreams on hold for a relationship or a family member who needed you. Maybe you lost your voice along the way because you came to believe you didn’t matter.
And maybe, just maybe, you were so busy taking care of everyone else that you never bothered to put yourself first.
It’s time.
These incidents leave us pondering the question… “Who am I?”
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHO YOU ARE AND WHO YOU WANT TO BE IS WHAT YOU DO.
Core values represent who you really want to be. For many of us, our core values lie beyond our comfort zone. When your core values (your heart) says, “Do it!” your comfort zone, (your head) says, “Nuh-uh.” But, growth doesn’t happen by staying in your bubble of comfort where everything is familiar to you.
Maybe you don’t know where to start. Maybe you’re terrified. Or perhaps you have started taking all the necessary steps towards “being”, but the finish line seems so far out of reach you feel you’re not making any progress. It’s easy to start feeling defeated and hopeless.
If you are feeling disconnected, unsure of where you are in life, don’t know you know who you are as a person, or that you have lost your true self, you could benefit from therapy. Relationships, work stress, family issues, difficulty saying “No” are all common reasons why it is easy to forget who we are as a person. You don’t have to figure this all out on your own.
Carrie
