Overcoming fear to become your authentic self.
According To Weeze: The Advice Column
It’s our very first “According to Weeze: The Advice Column” post! 💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽💃🏽
The Question: How do you overcome fear to become your authentic self? How did you get to this place of strength?
The Answer: The answer in this video, in true me fashion, starts with a story, my first memory of choosing my “authentic self” and how it informed the rest of my life. The TLDR: Choose you, someone is always going to have something negative or critical to say (seriously, at least one person, it just might not be to your face), so do it anyways, even though it can be scary! The full video gives you more context and a guide to choosing you even when it’s scary!
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Loved hearing your journey and all the reminders! This makes me think of pieces and parts of mine - some similar to yours, many different but all towards the same goal.
I had this story I told myself that I never stood up for myself or spoke up when I was younger. Over the years though I had people who shared with me how I stood up for them or times they saw me stand up for myself. But the story I told myself really didn’t shift until a very impactful therapy session (in my early 50s) where I finally truly heard my therapist say: you didn’t show up for yourself as much as you would have liked. And look at all this evidence of all the times you did stand up. And look at how consistently you’ve stood up for others.
I’m also reflecting on how not conscious that all was. It’s like my soul shoved my fear based ego out of the way because, at my deepest level, doing the right thing would not be denied.
I see that pattern over and over throughout my life. Where my scared inner child says run for cover, we’re about to die and my soul/authentic self says nah, this is worth staying and fighting for.
These days, after all the inner work, I’m much more conscious and intentional but it still happens and I’m still surprised and I’m so grateful! ♥️♥️♥️