{"id":803,"date":"2021-03-16T13:36:21","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T11:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itsmylife.gr\/?p=803"},"modified":"2021-03-29T13:03:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T10:03:39","slug":"my-blog-howdoyoudefineyouridentity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itsmylife.gr\/en\/my-blog-howdoyoudefineyouridentity\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you define your identity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<span style=\"color: #96c93e;\">&#8220;I am&#8221;.<\/span> <span style=\"color: #96c93e;\">The two words that are yours and yours alone.<\/span> The two words that no one else can say for you. The two words that have the power to change your life forever.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever wondered <span style=\"color: #96c93e;\">who\u2019s taught you these words?<\/span> Where have you heard them for the first time? Who was using these words? Did they have a positive or a negative connotation? Were they used in a loving and caring way or were they full of criticism, frustration and complaints? Were they words that gave you wings and the freedom to paint your own canvas or did they restrict you and immobilize you?<\/p>\n<p>As you\u2019re reading these lines you may be thinking, &#8220;I was a little girl then.&#8221; And today, as an adult, how do you use these words? Do you use them to embrace, celebrate and advance yourself or to constantly argue and face yourself as the enemy that needs to be defeated? <span style=\"color: #96c93e;\">When you look yourself in the mirror and say &#8220;I am&#8221; do you feel joy and pride or are you ashamed and look for imperfections?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #96c93e;\">And when you do say &#8220;I am&#8221; what exactly do you mean?<\/span> Are you referring to the various roles you have? For example, \u201cI am a doctor, a lawyer, a housewife, a scientist, a mom, a partner\u2026\u201d? Are you perhaps referring to the qualities you have as a human being? For example, \u201cI am bold, strong, caring, smart, calm, vulnerable, grateful, beautiful, free, balanced, complete, smiling, honest, worthy, wonderful, creative\u2026\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe as a child the words &#8220;you are&#8221; that you were told included more criticism and shame than joy and love. Maybe in your family &#8220;what you will become\u201d when you grow up was emphasized more than \u201cwho you will become\u201d as a personality. Maybe they urged you to become someone you did not want to be or take a role that did not suit you. <span style=\"color: #96c93e;\">Today, however, you are an adult, a woman and as such you define who you are.<\/span> You alone can define your identity, can\u2019t you?[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]&#8220;I am&#8221;. The two words that are yours and yours alone. The two words that no one else can say for you. The two words that<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmylife.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmylife.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmylife.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmylife.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmylife.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmylife.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmylife.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmylife.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmylife.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itsmylife.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}