Hello and welcome to Inner Work. I'm your host, Josephine Hardman. This is day 10 of my 30-day

authenticity challenge. We are one-third of the way there. And I'm so glad you have returned to

continue this important work.

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So for the last two days of the challenge, you have become more aware of the degree to which you allow yourself to be authentic with friends and at work.

You also did an exercise of writing down and burning your fears, worries, and concerns about becoming more authentic in these areas of your life. I hope that this exercise

served to free you from some or a lot of those fears and that you will continue shedding those

unnecessary burdensome fears that keep you from being authentic gradually.

So today for day 10, I want to keep things a little bit simpler.

We're going to pull back a little bit.

That's why the episode is a little bit shorter.

Because there's basically an important question that I want us to ask and to ponder, reflect on, write about, and see what comes up for you.

So I'm not going to beat around the bush here.

The main question that I want us to ask for day 10 is as follows. What do you feel you would lose

if you lived as your authentic self? Now, when I use the word you in this question, so what do

you feel you would lose? I am referring to the part of you that feels you would lose something

if you lived as your authentic self in the world. We already know, of course, that you have

many parts of you, including your soul, that want you to live an authentic life.

So parts of you that are pulling you forward in that direction of authenticity,

of coming home to yourself.

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