16/08/2023
Every journey is a voyage of self-confrontation.
Around 2.5 years ago, I followed my passion and became self-employed as a coach for creative co-founders, teams and wholehearted professionals.
I assist them in riding their emotional roller coasters, transforming challenges into catalysts 🎢🚀
But boy is it occasionally a roller coaster for me, too! 😅 From celebrating victories, overcoming challenges, to dealing with ongoing difficulties.
I am constantly confronted with different parts of myself. It's not always the confident, hard-working, grounded and smart parts. Sometimes, and in some periods more frequently 😉, there is my lazy part, the avoiding one, the frustrated one, the doubting one.
At first, I considered the latter problematic, in the sense that I wanted to get rid of them. I constantly was looking to be a better version of myself. And it worked: I analyzed my strengths and weaknesses, discovered my purpose and my values, set clear goals of who I want to become, recognized inner barriers - and I evolved. This journey reflected my personal self-authorship.
Later, though, I realized that I was constantly in an inner conflict. A constant battling with the parts of me I disliked.
The shift began once I started to embrace greater acceptance. Welcoming who I was and who I am. Acceptance carries a paradoxical effect: the urge for change diminishes. You start to relax. You embrace your authenticity... and that's precisely where new things become possible.
I believe that personal development, whether in private life or in leadership roles, is about playing a polarity: the interplay of self-authorship and self-acceptance. 🦋