Here, best-selling author shannonlkaiser describes her experience falling out of touch with her true nature—and how she found her way back.
My 13-year-old self didn't know this was my true essence, and fitting in and being liked became a bigger priority than liking myself or doing what I enjoyed. When I was younger, I had a learning disability that made it difficult for me to learn how to read, spell, and write efficiently, and other kids made fun of me for this.
The bullying continued each year, so in order to feel safe from the ridicule, I gave up my natural expressions of self and quit writing and being there for people. By age 14, I had fallen away from myself. It's no coincidence that my eating disorders started then, as well as myAdvertisementThis story isn't just my story.
It's no secret that we live in a world that invites us to abandon our true selves in the pursuit of fitting in. We want so desperately to be liked that we sacrifice our real self, never asking,For over three decades, my need to be liked and to fit in, along with my concern about what others thought about me, overshadowed my ability to be my true self.
It wasn't until I looked at this tendency of trying to fit in that I saw what was really happening—the quiet death of my soul and spirit.I knew I needed to find a way back to me, but I couldn't ignore all of the experiences I had suffered through. I wanted to know why I went through what I did, and in studying, it became clear that life is a classroom and everything is our teacher.
I learned the more we resist life and push against what is, the more we struggle. The outside world will do everything it can to keep us hooked on the,"You're not good enough" narrative. But when we focus outside of ourselves on what others think about us, or what is wrong and needs to be changed or fixed, we don't give ourselves a chance to go within and honor our true self.and diving deep into the dark, obsessive news rabbit hole of trauma and drama.
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