Inner Work 235: In between your old self and new self

In the process of personal transformation and healing, you'll often find yourself existing somewhere between your “old self” and your “new self.”

The “old self” is the identity that has served you up until now, which you have likely outgrown and are now seeking to shed.

This “old self” is made up of the collection of attachments, self-perceptions, habits, behaviors, choices, and coping mechanisms (or “life strategies”) you’ve been carrying with you from the past.

Your “new self” is your emerging identity and new way of BEING in the world, made up of the collection of conscious choices, behaviors, beliefs, and life strategies you’re stretching yourself into. This is part of your expansion, part of your awakening.

This brilliant Self – your true self - is revealed, layer by layer, the more you shed anything that doesn’t reflect the truth of who you are.

As you expand, you often have to “straddle” this in-between state: that state when your new Self hasn’t fully emerged, and your old self is still sometimes running the show (when you fall back into old patterns, without really meaning to).

This is a period when you know the “old” isn’t working for you anymore, but the “new” hasn’t been fully born. So it feels a bit like being in two realities at the same time.

On this episode of INNER WORK, we'll talk about what it's like to be in this in-between state and how you can navigate your inner (and outer) transformation more easily.

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