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When You Begin To Live As Yourself Again · Living & Learning with Aundria McMillan Humphrey

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  SPEAKER_00: Hello and welcome.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is Living and Learning with Andrea McMillan Humphrey.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is episode 16, When You Begin to Live as Yourself Again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for joining me this morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's begin.
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  There comes a moment when you begin to recognize the essence of
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  who you are.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not the version shaped by outside expectations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not the version shaped by roles or labels.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not the one held together by fake smiles and practiced personas.
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  There comes a moment when you step away from the version of
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  yourself you created to survive.
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  SPEAKER_00: The version others needed you to be.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in that space, something more honest begins to emerge.
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  SPEAKER_00: You enter a quiet,
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  SPEAKER_00: tender season,
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  SPEAKER_00: a season where you're not performing anymore,
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  SPEAKER_00: but you're not fully anchored either.
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  It's the in-between,
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  where you start hearing your own voice again,
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  but at first it's faint.
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  SPEAKER_00: like a whisper behind a closed door.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it's unmistakably yours.
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  SPEAKER_00: And once you hear it, you cannot unhear it.
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  You begin noticing what feels nourishing and what feels like an
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  old obligation you
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  SPEAKER_00: no longer owe.
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  SPEAKER_00: You start choosing differently.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not dramatically, but with a kind of gentle conviction.
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  SPEAKER_00: You stop abandoning yourself in small ways.
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  SPEAKER_00: You stop shrinking to make others feel comfortable.
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  SPEAKER_00: You stop apologizing for taking up space in your own life.
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  SPEAKER_00: And yes, it's disorienting.
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  SPEAKER_00: because you're shedding a self that once protected you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's grief in that.
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  But there's gratitude too,
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  for the version of you that carried so much for so long.
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  SPEAKER_00: But slowly you begin to inhabit yourself again.
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  SPEAKER_00: You begin to live from truth instead of performance.
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  SPEAKER_00: You begin to reclaim your time, your energy, your boundaries, your joy.
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  This is the moment when your life stops being a reaction and
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  starts becoming a
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  SPEAKER_00: homecoming,
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  a return to the person you were always meant to be before the
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  world told you who
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  SPEAKER_00: you should become.
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  SPEAKER_00: You begin to sense that small choices become everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not big declarations, but tiny moments of alignment.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's in these small moments,
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  SPEAKER_00: how you respond,
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  SPEAKER_00: what you allow,
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  SPEAKER_00: what you choose,
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  SPEAKER_00: that your life begins to shift.
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  Whether this moment comes at 40 or 60 or 80,
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  it carries the same quiet question.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now how do I live as this person who I really am?
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  And underneath that is that small voice that says,
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  and if I do,
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  will I still be accepted?
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  SPEAKER_00: Accepted?
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  SPEAKER_00: And perhaps that's where this begins,
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  SPEAKER_00: not with certainty,
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  SPEAKER_00: but with a willingness to live a little more honestly than before.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now,
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  SPEAKER_00: wherever you are this morning,
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  SPEAKER_00: whatever this moment is asking of you,
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  SPEAKER_00: may you meet it with a little more awareness and a little more kindness,
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  SPEAKER_00: because we are all in our own way still becoming
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  SPEAKER_00: This has been Living and Learning with Andrea McMillan Humphrey.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if someone you know might need this today, feel free to share it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'll be here next Monday.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I look forward to having you here with me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank you for listening.