When You Learn to “Lean In” You Learn How to Be a Better Person
Embracing the parts of yourself you hide is the secret to finding your truest self.
I hardly recognize the life I was living before I learned how to lean in. It was so stale, so miserable, so unfulfilling. More often than not, I felt like I was stumbling in the dark, through relationships that didn’t make me feel good and opportunities that took me further and further away from the person I wanted to be.
The reality is that I was living on autopilot before I learned how to question myself and my motivations. I ran from my feelings and repeated the behaviors I had seen in those around me. I was a hurricane of toxic cycles. When bad things happened, I pushed everything down to the bottom and prayed it would go away.
For me, things didn’t turn around until I learned how to lean into the things that I avoided the most. That included my anger, my history, my relationships with friends, family, and even the partners I paired off with in my life.
The truth is that this is the same for everyone.
Until we learn how to “lean in” and question the things that make us “us”, we keep going through the same motions; outrunning the same devils. It’s a self-defeating cycle. Do you want a better…
