In my years working with women I so often witnessed the struggle to live life authentically. Something seems to happen where who we are gets put to the side as life gets filled with roles and busyness. We end up living a surface life or a life focused on everything outside of us instead of what’s inside of us. We will often come to these crossroads to live more deeply but then don’t know how to make changes. So we end up down the path that’s familiar again. And I get it….I’ve been there often….yes, apparently I needed the lesson a few times! But there was a very particular moment where I got to that crossroad again, that was different. It was in a split second a got hit with a truth. Through a quick glance in my rear view mirror as I was changing lanes I saw myself for the first time. I had travelled so far away from who I knew myself to be that I didn’t even realise it until this simple but life changing moment. I was so lost but that woman within also looked back with this expression of "don’t you turn away from me again!". You see, I was not living in alignment with my own true self. I had her shutdown inside. On the surface I was ticking all the boxes of life. I pulled over in my car and I bawled. I had "fitted in" without realising it, without even seeing it. I too had that realisation of not having any idea of how to make it different.