I've spent the last 7.5 years becoming the real me and not the version of me that comes with the roles I take on. I'll share what I learned from my AIR Network Therapist, Tracy and the real life work of doing it.
Shannon is the founder of Aloud. She has lived experience with anxiety and CPTSD. She also is the caregiver of a mother of a son with autism. She says she didn't know who she was from the time she was young. Today she talks about how to embrace who you are.
Hi, Cadre friends. It is Shannon from aloud. It's nice to see you. It is Tuesday afternoon, and we are back today to talk about how to be you. We're going through a little bit of a series in learning how to really embrace who you are and really. And figuring out how to do that. It's easy to say love yourself. It's easy to say be who you are and own yourself and all of those things. Things. And today we're gonna talk about the how you do it. Right. Those tactical parts. So, for those of you who don't know me, I'm Shannon.
I'm the founder of Aloud. And we exist to be a safe space for people to talk about topics that are hard to talk about. And so, I'm not a therapist. I have lived experience with anxiety and CPTSD, and I've spent the last seven and a half years in something called air network therapy to deal with trauma that I went through in life. And so that's what the how to be you, that's where the how to be you comes from. Hi, Alec. I'm also the caregiver of a mother of a son with autism. And so, like many of you, I go through life, I've been going through life playing many roles, and we all do, right?
And the world tells us how to be in these roles. So, again, for me, I have, I don't know, five or six or seven. And you probably do too. High. Speak wonder. Thank you for coming back today. And so I hit 40. When I hit 40 years old, I had a perfect life in many ways, and I was not being myself. It was the perfect life in the way the world wanted it to look, but not necessarily the perfect life for me as a human. And so part of why I think I was so unhappy, even though I had everything according to what society says, is that I didn't know who I was from the time I was young.
I know the things I liked. I loved playing soccer, I loved running, I loved reading. Just like so many of you, right? There's things that you love to do. But I didn't know. I didn't know who I was. I didn't know when I made decisions, what was driving those decisions. I often went with what the world told me. And the world tells us a lot of things, right, as the gender that we are, maybe in the region of the country that we grow up in, our familial system, where we might sit in that order, you know, are you a middle child?
Are you an only child? All of these different sort of positions or roles in life.
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