Why It's Hard To "Be Yourself"
When people say, "just be yourself", that can be uber confusing to decide which "self" to be. There's a self in all of us that has an agenda and guideline for how you HAVE to be in order to be loved, accepted, valued or the most powerful. This is the self that you'll put forward on dates, job interviews, around friends or new people without even thinking. It's an automatic patterned response directed from your ego to act and behave in a certain way to get an unmet need validated. Then...