Are you really safe or secure if you don't feel like yourself?

If you're fitting in and that's making you feel distance from yourself, is that true

safety and security or is that weakness?

Hey everyone, welcome back to On Purpose.

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And today's theme is going to truly, truly help. It's something that I've struggled with.

It's something that I know so many of us have been challenged by and I want to ask you

this question, have you ever caught yourself trying to fit in? Right? Maybe you've done

it with a group of friends, maybe with people in your workplace or maybe a yoga class

or at the gym. How many times have you spotted yourself trying to fit in? Maybe it's fitting

into a conversation. Maybe it's fitting into a group. Maybe it's fitting into a messenger

group. Maybe it's fitting into a online group conversation, whatever it may be, how many

times have you caught yourself trying to fit in? Now, I remember the feeling from school.

I never wanted to be picked last. You never want to be the odd one out. Fitting in was always

something we were encouraged to do, whether it's wearing a uniform, whether it was playing

the same sports as everyone else and not necessarily sharing or showing our differences.

Right? If you think about it, when you were young, how much were you encouraged in the

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