What Do You Call Yourself? The Story Hidden in Your Name

What do we tell ourselves when life turns its back on us?

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Our identity is shaped by the names we have heard and internalized. If, while growing up, we were called cruel or demeaning names, we, most likely, have formed a negative identity around them. This “collection of names” can haunt us as our inner critic, especially when times get rough.

When we are at our lowest, those names emerge from our …