Get To Know The Real You
When you are asked to introduce yourself, do you respond by telling them what you do, where you live, or who you know? Well, those are certainly important aspects of your life but they aren't your whole life, or at least they shouldn't be.
We spend so much of our time focusing on our relationships with other people that often we neglect the most important relationship of all - the relationship with ourselves. We, women, are so identified as roles of mother, wife, daughter, and sometimes career woman that we often forget who we really wanted to be, what we dreamt of becoming, and what we love and value. In effect, we have forgotten our "self" , our "true self", "essential self", and "wise self".
Very often we have buried our authentic selves under a facade constructed in order to please other people or to be socially acceptable. But the effort to sustain this image is draining and self-defeating, and it requires too much energy to maintain. It is time to step free of the scripted life we have been living, peel away everything that is not essential and discover our authentic identity. Reclaim the woman we truly are!
Remember what is important in our lives, hopes, and dreams. Discover and rediscover our deepest yearnings. In order to do this, we need to embark on a psychological search-and-rescue mission to comb back through our lives and recover our joy, wisdom, passion, enthusiasm, self-confidence, vitality - the threads of our true self that we have lost along the way.
Creating a life we love requires courage, commitment, and perseverance, all of which we have. The call now is for us to be authentically ourselves.
- The above is inspired after reading "Chicken Soup For The Soul - Life Lessons for Women". Yes, everything is in our own hands. We make the life we want to have!"
We spend so much of our time focusing on our relationships with other people that often we neglect the most important relationship of all - the relationship with ourselves. We, women, are so identified as roles of mother, wife, daughter, and sometimes career woman that we often forget who we really wanted to be, what we dreamt of becoming, and what we love and value. In effect, we have forgotten our "self" , our "true self", "essential self", and "wise self".
Very often we have buried our authentic selves under a facade constructed in order to please other people or to be socially acceptable. But the effort to sustain this image is draining and self-defeating, and it requires too much energy to maintain. It is time to step free of the scripted life we have been living, peel away everything that is not essential and discover our authentic identity. Reclaim the woman we truly are!
Remember what is important in our lives, hopes, and dreams. Discover and rediscover our deepest yearnings. In order to do this, we need to embark on a psychological search-and-rescue mission to comb back through our lives and recover our joy, wisdom, passion, enthusiasm, self-confidence, vitality - the threads of our true self that we have lost along the way.
Creating a life we love requires courage, commitment, and perseverance, all of which we have. The call now is for us to be authentically ourselves.
- The above is inspired after reading "Chicken Soup For The Soul - Life Lessons for Women". Yes, everything is in our own hands. We make the life we want to have!"
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