Drawing close to a new year, it is easy to look back on the past 12 months. What has happened, where we have been, what we have let define us. What our identity has become. When thinking about our identity, what things are we using to define what we are? Are we thinking of actions or events? That promotion we were so excited for. That trauma that feels like it has defined every day since. The mistake we made that we can't seem to run from. Is it other people we are letting define us? Finding identity in the person who chose to love us this year. Finding identity in the one that did not choose to love us. The praise or the rejection we received that feels like it is making us who we are. Maybe it's from our own thoughts? Confidence, false or legitimate. Anxiety. Whatever word we are trying to project to the surface. A lot of times, it's a title we might think of, whether good or bad. Single. Spouse. Boss....
Amanda Arnold