Here are a list of books that have helped me along my journey. This is so much more than a list of books on finding yourself. This list is filled with different perspectives to help you learn how to be your authentic self when every part of you wants to hide behind your masks.

I was having fun and enjoying myself, so I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what my relationship with fun was. Why didn’t I feel like I could have fun? Am I just a boring person now? W H Y is this causing me to feel so anxious!? Weeks of self reflection led me to realize that I was living out of alignment with my values, and starting to stray away from my authentic self. This was causing anxiety because I was spending my time and energy in ways that didn’t light me up, and wasn’t being the version of me that I wanted to be.

Have you ever stopped to question who you are? I mean, who you really are? What things you love, what things you hate. What you like to do for fun. What your beliefs are. Why you do the things you do. I’m talking who you are underneath the roles you play. Underneath being the mom, older sister, or friend. And even underneath the people pleaser, the giver, the fixer, the perfectionist, the warrior. Underneath the masks that you are wearing. So many of us are on autopilot that we don’t know who we are. Instead, we are a collage of the beliefs we’re told to believe, acting how we’re told to act, and doing things other’s want us to do.

When I think about my authentic self, I’m someone who lives fearlessly. Someone who takes chances. Jumps off cliffs with full trust that I’ll figure out how to land. I don’t want to admit that I’m far from that. A lot farther than I thought.

I remember learning about caterpillars in elementary school. I would stare at the posters around the classroom and admire the fact that the caterpillar somehow just knew when it was ready to begin metamorphosis. How it builds a cocoon for itself, and when it has spent the necessary amount of time inside, it breaks out […]

Today we’re welcoming Megan of The Best Self to the podcast! She’s sharing about her journey with food, her relationship with her body, and overcoming an eating disorder. She shares pretty vulnerably about her journey from realizing she had an issue with binge eating to turning to therapy to addressing her eating disorder with her […]