What is Authenticity?

Authenticity is the quality of being genuine, real, and true to oneself. It involves living in alignment with one's values, beliefs, and innermost feelings rather than conforming to external expectations or societal norms. Authenticity means being honest and transparent about who you are, your strengths, weaknesses, and vulnerabilities. It also entails having the courage to express yourself authentically in your actions, relationships, and communication. Embracing authenticity fosters deeper connections with others and a greater sense of fulfillment and integrity in life.

My job is to help you return to your authenticity so you can recover your individual, and uniquely particular value for being in this world and start living your life for You. I believe when you return to your authenticity the symptoms you are trying to relieve will lessen as they will no longer be needed to get you to pay attention to losses of the past that need grieving. When you grieve the losses (of nurturance, care, love, guidance, etc) that were denied to you, the symptoms start to make sense and you can see them for the lifesaving information they contain.

It isn’t easy, and it takes time, but I believe we can find your authenticity by looking at your past to see moments where your it was questioned, challenged and denied to you. We go back to your wounded child within to understand just exactly what happened to contribute to your diminished authenticity and we look at the better ways thing could have unfolded for you and we and start giving you that support now. We fulfill unmet needs so that the wound of it can heal its insistence on making itself known in your life is no longer something you have to spend energy to ignore. It’s never too late.

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"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

— Maya Angelou
"It's never too late to be what you might have been."

— George Eliot
“Until you make the unconscious conscious it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

— Carl Jung
"The deep critical thinker has become the misfit of the world, this is not a conincidence. To maintain order and control you must isolate the intellectual, the sage, the philosopher, the savant before their ideas awaken people."

— Carl Jung
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

— Thomas A. Edison
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

— George Bernard Shaw
"There's a power in words. There's power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.

— Tracy Chapman
"I don't try to project any image at all, other than the person that I am."

— Tracy Chapman
"The important thing about "brave" is, it doesn't mean you're not terrified."

— Sinead O’Connor
"Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths."

— Criss Jami
"To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment."

— Eckart Tolle
"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity."

— Thomas J. Watson
"I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years."

— Haruki Murakami
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

— Aristotle
"[A person's] greatness lies in [their] power of thought."

— Blaise Pascal
"In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."

— Eleanor Roosevelt
"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."

— David Hume
"Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you."

— F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be."

— Thoreau
""To find yourself, think for yourself."

— Socrates
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"The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."

— Albert Einstein
"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks."

— Christoper Hitchens
"We must dare to think about 'unthinkable things' because when things become 'unthinkable,' thinking stops and action becomes mindless."

— J. William Fulbright
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."

— Marie Curie
"Obstacles, of course are developmentally necessary: they teach [people] strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience, and resourcefulness."

— Naomi Wolf
"We will fail when we fail to try."

— Rosa Parks