Rediscovering Who You Really Are After Trauma, Burnout or People-Pleasing | Thema Bryant, PhD
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2024
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Have you lost touch with your authentic self after trauma, burnout or years of people-pleasing? Join psychologist Dr. Thema Bryant as she shares a powerful roadmap for reclaiming your true identity.
Dr. Bryant, author of Reclaim Yourself: The Homecoming Workbook, unveils how to shed the inauthentic masks we adopt just to fit in. You'll learn to dismantle those facades, reconnect with your core values, and rebuild confidence in your genuine self-expression. Whether you've felt spiritually disconnected or simply adrift, this guide will help you rediscover your most authentic self.
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| 0:00.0 | Where are your soft places to land? |
| 0:02.4 | Or have we constructed a life where there are no places to land? |
| 0:06.8 | When that's now a pattern, then we have to say, |
| 0:09.6 | how am I participating in co-creating these kinds of relationships. Now how we might |
| 0:16.3 | co-create that is some people when they're going through a hard time disappear. |
| 0:20.0 | So then your friends never get to see you in your struggle so they assume you don't need anything. |
| 0:26.0 | All right and then they don't offer anything. |
| 0:28.0 | So we want to think about how can I show up more authentically so I can have more real connections. |
| 0:35.3 | So have you ever felt like you've lost a part of yourself along the way? |
| 0:42.0 | Like the person that you truly are deep down has gotten buried |
| 0:45.3 | under layers of masks and personas and false cells adopted just to fit in to get approval or stay safe. |
| 0:53.4 | If so you're not alone. |
| 0:54.9 | So many of us reach points in our lives |
| 0:56.7 | where we look around and realize that we've |
| 0:58.2 | strayed so far from our authentic cells. |
| 1:00.7 | And the painful truth is that persisting in those inauthentic ways it just wreaks having on our peace of mind or relationships our health |
| 1:09.2 | Our very soul, but what if you could reclaim that lost sense of self? |
| 1:13.6 | Rediscover who you really are and start living from that place of truth. |
| 1:17.8 | My guest today is Dr. Tamabryan, a clinical psychologist, the 2023 president of the American Psychological Association, professor at |
| 1:25.2 | Pepperdine University, an author of the book, Reclaim Yourself, the Homecoming Workbook. |
| 1:30.2 | An expert on the journey of self-rediscovery after trauma or identity loss, Dr Bryant shares |
| 1:36.5 | just deeply insightful and practical wisdom for dismantling our emotional masks and coming home to our most authentic selves. |
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