The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

-Carl Gustav Jung

At young ages we learn and are taught to shield and protect ourselves by only disclosing what is acceptable or requested. We learn to mute thoughts that may shock, offend, hurt or cause others to react unfavorably towards us. As we grow older we take this behavior as our identities and find it difficult to see what makes us feel alone, excluded or unhappy. The reality is there is only a rare few of us that are brave enough to embrace the fact that we aren’t who we betray ourselves to be to our colleagues, friends and loved ones. It’s an extremely scary feeling to consider that the person you’ve created for others to love and adore is not completely real. Parts that you truly enjoy being is real but the parts that you bend and twist to conform for acceptance, approval and praise aren’t. Those are the parts that attack your thoughts to give you fear, doubt, shame and anxiety so that they can continue to exist. They are shells built around the true you that is vulnerable, confident, free willed, naively loving and worry free. I am cracking the shells I have built over the years and peeling away self sabotaging behaviors I’ve allowed to bully, shame and lock away the joyful, healthy, happy and loving me. You are welcome to come laugh, cry, empathize or get inspired with me as I tear this bullshit down.