Who Were You Before Survival Taught You Who You Had To Be?
About this episode
Carina Bull explores how survival patterns shape women's identities and the parts of themselves they leave behind in the process.
One of the saddest things about survival isn't what it makes women do. It's what it makes women leave behind. The playful woman. The creative woman. The outspoken woman. The woman who trusted herself. The woman who rested without guilt. The woman who took up space. In this episode, Carina explores how survival patterns don't just shape behaviour, they shape identity. And over time, many women become so focused on being responsible, capable, helpful, and strong that they lose access to the parts of themselves that once felt most alive. Not because those parts disappeared. But because survival convinced them they were no longer safe. In this episode, we explore: - How survival slowly teaches women which parts of themselves feel safest to hide - The difference between losing yourself and losing access to yourself - Why survival patterns often become identity - The hidden cost of always being the strong one - The parts of ourselves we often leave behind in order to survive - Why healing is not about becoming somebody new - How reconnecting with yourself differs from fixing yourself - What it means to come home to yourself again - Why the woman you're looking for may not be missing at…
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