The growth challenge around Authenticity arises when we learn to modify or mask a behavior or emotion to cater to what others want us to be. In order to be an empowered individual, people with this challenge have developed a projection outward of something that isn’t necessarily authentic to their inner world. A result can be a disconnect from what’s authentically true for themselves.
Read MoreDuring the infant period of our life we have a lot of needs and rely one hundred percent on caregivers to deliver on those needs. Between feedings, connection, sleeping and mobilizing, we are at the whim of an adult to take good care of us. The foundational growing edge we’re working at this stage of our lives is Support. It’s as if we’re asking the world, “I have all these needs; is there help available so I can get them met?”
Read MoreAs little, newly arrived humans, the first thing we’re “measuring” is if the world is safe and welcoming. If we experience peaceful, attuned connection and a warm environment, we can internalize that experience as our own. Foundationally we can have the experience of being welcomed to the world and that our aliveness is OK.
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