Knowing that you’re out of alignment requires self awareness. But if you’re still working on that, here are some signs to help you determine if you’re out of alignment with your authentic self.

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.

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 […]