Small Steps Coaching Blog » identity http://small-steps-coaching.com/blog If it wasn't for dreams, sleep would be total waste of time Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:35:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Authentic Self http://small-steps-coaching.com/blog/2010/01/27/authentic-self/ http://small-steps-coaching.com/blog/2010/01/27/authentic-self/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:08:20 +0000 Dalida Turkovic http://small-steps-coaching.com/blog/?p=190 A while ago I wrote about acceptance and in another blog about Stacy Charter. Tonight she inspires me again.

This quote is for all who are willing to step up and get in touch with the Authentic Self.

“There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout:
This is me damn it! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me… or leave me. Accept me – or walk away! Do not try to make me feel like less of a person, just because I don’t fit your idea of who I should be and don’t try to change me to fit your mold. If I need to change, I alone will make that decision.
When you are strong enough to love yourself 100%, good and bad – you will be amazed at the opportunities that life presents you.”

Stacey Charter
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Studies showed that individuals who had been isolated from their familiar social and cultural environment, became neurotic. This shows that when those individuals had no object to identify their darker emotions with, they began to see these things in themselves that which they refused to recognize before, and were unaware of why they appeared and how to cope. Lilli, 1956; Grunebaum, 1960; Heran, 1953

What/Who do you identify with? Your job? Your family? Your country? Your car, friends, pets?

Who would you be on a deserted island? What would happen to your identity if you were in jail?

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

Dr. Seuss

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