Hey Laura,
I’ve been thinking a bit about the role I have been playing in life.
I believe that in certain situations, for example around my family I have been cast in a role that is no longer true for me…and maybe never was.
In my family, I am the quiet one, I am the little sister, I am the timid one who isn’t quite sure of what she wants. Outside of my family, I am far from this character but it seems that without wanting to, whenever I am around them I slip back into this role and am over powered, shy and unsure of myself.
How can I go about rewriting the story?
Thanks so much x
How has being the timid one who doesn’t know what she wants served you in the past?
List every way in which you needed to be this person. Every way in which this served you.
Then decide who you want to be now.
So many of us live different lives – one person at home, another at work, another with friends – a life out of integrity. It is hard work!
This work often means we discover who we are underneath all of that. That means a change in how we show up. This can shock others – and perhaps rightly so – they know us as someone else. They are allowed to be shocked, you are allowed to be true to who you are.
This is when sometimes friendships and relationships change. They can become deeper, they can complete themselves. Like everything in life this change is inevitable – its best to open up to it, to soften to it, to allow it.
You dont need to re write the story. You were shy and timid in parts of your life, that was how it was meant to be, it always was. See how it served you then let it lie and focus on how you show up as your best self for you.
xx