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I thought asking better questions would give me answers. · Just Julia

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  SPEAKER_00: I thought asking better questions would give me answers.
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  SPEAKER_00: Instead, it changed my life.
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  SPEAKER_00: At the beginning of this year, I started asking myself questions I had avoided for years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not because I was unhappy,
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  SPEAKER_00: but because,
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  SPEAKER_00: for the first time,
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  SPEAKER_00: I was curious enough to wonder if the life I had built was also the life
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  SPEAKER_00: that was truly aligned with who I was becoming.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, I started reading,
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  SPEAKER_00: journaling, learning more about meditation, spirituality, energy, neuroplasticity.
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  SPEAKER_00: I expected clarity.
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  SPEAKER_00: What I got was uncertainty.
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  SPEAKER_00: The more honest my questions became, the more parts of my life seemed to shift.
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  SPEAKER_00: At first,
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  SPEAKER_00: it felt like loss,
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  SPEAKER_00: like pieces of my identity were quietly disappearing before I had found anything
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  SPEAKER_00: to replace them.
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  SPEAKER_00: I kept wondering,
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  SPEAKER_00: why is everything becoming so uncertain just when I thought I was getting closer
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  SPEAKER_00: to myself?
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  SPEAKER_00: But lately, another thought has been finding me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe life wasn't taking things away.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it was creating space.
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  SPEAKER_00: Space for questions I would never have dared to ask six months ago.
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  SPEAKER_00: Space for ideas I wouldn't even have considered.
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  SPEAKER_00: Space for a version of myself that couldn't grow inside the life I had become
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  SPEAKER_00: so comfortable living.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm still in the middle of that process.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know exactly where it will lead.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe that's the point.
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  SPEAKER_00: For the first time in a long time, I'm no longer trying to rush to the answer.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm learning to trust the questions.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this is what this publication will be.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not a place where someone who has everything figured out shares advice.
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  SPEAKER_00: A place where someone who's learning to ask better questions shares the journey.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're somewhere between the life you've known and
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  SPEAKER_00: the one you're slowly discovering, welcome.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe we'll find a few answers together.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just Julia.