According to a recent Gallup Poll 55% of workers get a sense of identity from their job.
Generation X women wear so many hats, mom, wife, executive, daughter, employee, boss and we are really good at switching quickly from cowgirl hat to fedora. Do you feel like, along the way, you stopped wearing hats and instead, started wearing masks, hiding your true identity for the mask of mom, wife, executive, employee? When we remove the mask, we don’t even know who we are, standing in the mirror, completely vulnerable and a bit empty.
We want you to explore who you are, under all those masks. What actually makes you tick and what’s your worth outside of the roles you play?
Gen X Women want to be all in all the time, which makes it even easier to lose our identities in every title we wear and forgetting ourselves in all of that.
Here are some ways we lose our identities:
WORK:
Your job and title define you and it becomes your first introduction point when meeting people.
MOM:
You play Supermom, needing to be at every game, on the board of the PTA and bake cookies for the bake sale (from scratch).
WIFE:
Beyond loving marriage, this is where you are wrapped up in making your husband happy that you forget all about your own happiness.
WEIGHT/FINANCES:
Items like this can hold your identity hostage. You can be handcuffed to never wearing a bathing suit in public or always at the gym to be as fit as possible. What about finances, constantly comparing yourself to those around you.
Start Asking Yourself: What is your self worth?
If you've lost your identity in any (or all) of these and have forgotten who you are and what you represent, we can help. Download our free resource, Rediscovering Yourself Workbook here
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