Identity Flexibility: An Exercise

Your identity is your sense of who you are. It is made up of everything that you identify with. One of the biggest things that we identity with externally are our social roles (like being a parent or a partner). One of the biggest things that we identity with internally are our stories—the stories that we tell ourselves and others about who we are. We use our stories to hold together all of the things that we identify with, like our social roles, and also our thoughts and feelings and our beliefs. Our beliefs about ourselves determine our relationship with everyone and everything else. So if we want to change our relationship with anything we have to change our beliefs about that thing and we have to change our beliefs about ourselves. We can change our beliefs about ourselves by developing flexibility in our identity. With Identity flexibility we’re able to choose our beliefs about ourselves, which sets us free to choose who we want to be, which sets us free to be as big as we really are (and for most folks that's about being WAY bigger than we even think we can be). Because you are. So to help with developing flexibility in yawls identity I created an exercise. The full length exercise is here: https://youtu.be/3apnVIB_7xw?si=fhIlVZcGueWkAjpw This is the abbreviated version. Check it out.