#183 How to Stop Letting Your Past Define You

What if some of the things you call your personality… are actually old survival strategies?Maybe you tell yourself you’re too much. Hard to love. Not good enough. Maybe you expect people to leave, overthink everything, struggle to receive love, or constantly feel like you have to prove your worth.In this episode, I’m exploring how painful experiences can quietly become stories about who we are - and how those stories can start feeling like identity.I’m also sharing something deeply personal: how my mum leaving when I was six shaped the way I saw myself for years, and how I slowly began separating what happened to me from what I made it mean about me.This isn’t about denying your past or forcing yourself to think positively.It’s about learning to ask a different question:What if this thought isn’t who I am? What if it’s simply an old story my brain learned to believe?Your past deserves to be understood.It doesn’t deserve to decide who you become.