Lewis Howes

No one will ever make fun of me again, et cetera.

And that was part of a wound that for many years, whenever I was criticized, again, this is from my own personal experience, whenever I was criticized in the past,

I needed to defend myself.

I needed to prove them wrong.

And I did.

I defended myself.

I proved them wrong by accomplishing everything I wanted.

But I still didn't feel good because I was creating from a wound, not from a healed place.

I needed to be the athlete, the one who didn't need anyone, all these things.

I did it all on my own.

And that identity kept me safe when I was younger.

But I was carrying it into rooms and into seasons of life where it was actually holding me back to new levels of freedom, new levels of peace.

So I had to learn how to grieve who I had become so that I could be who I was meant to be.

And when you've carried an identity for years, decades, like...

It's hard to let that go because you're like, huh, but this has helped me get here.

This has helped me survive.

But surviving does not mean thriving.

It doesn't mean peace.

It doesn't mean abundance.

It means you could get some certain results.