They are lurking in the shadows hoping you will call them back into the light. They just remain dormant…waiting for you to awaken them. And those parts of yourself that you hid away and stopped expressing didn’t go away or become separate from you. Here’s the truth: You are and always have been connected. And now I’m struggling to feel connected to them again. I wanted him to love and accept me, but he didn’t resonate with these core parts of my being.
I shut away some essential parts of myself to please someone else. She so wanted to express her core gifts, and she couldn’t figure out how. She couldn’t connect with her passion or the things that used to make her feel happy and fulfilled let alone confident and enthusiastic. This week while leading a group coaching session, one of my students expressed her anguish over not having any idea of her purpose in this lifetime. Many people feel they’ve lost themselves.