When you discover your choices have been limited by the boxes that you believed were essential, what then? A sense of betrayal, discomfort, shame, fear - all valid responses. Why didn't I know? Why didn't someone tell me? Why was I so blinded? We are all conditioned to perform, to please, to take on roles not to keep us small ironically but in the belief it will help us be more, successful, liked and happy! It's the pattern that is on cultural conditioned repeat, until we stop, and get curious. Question the ideals, the enculturated consensus and see the small cracks that begin to open with closer inspection. This is what I am finding in my quest to reconnect to my essence. The role I was literally born to live, the striping back of layers that have covered and held me to "fit" an ideal of social culture. Follow along as I bare it all, in the hope it might support your journey to redefine, discern and reconnect to you. The you that was literally the gift you were born to share. Stay curious, be brave and shine. It an extraordinary time to be alive. See you on the other side!
