The Truth About Awakening: It’s Not About Becoming Someone New
There’s a myth I see everywhere in the self-development world: that you need to “fix yourself,” “heal everything,” or become some perfect, shiny version of you before you can finally live your life.
But here’s the truth: Awakening isn’t about becoming someone new.
It’s about remembering who you already are.
The Myth of Self-Improvement
We live in a culture obsessed with self-improvement. There’s always another course, another hack, another practice that promises to finally make us whole.
The subtle message is always the same: you’re not enough as you are.
But what if you never needed fixing? What if the parts of you you’ve been trying to improve or get rid of were never the problem in the first place?
The Cracks Are Sacred
Most people don’t begin their Awakening because life is easy. It begins when something cracks open.
The relationship ends.
The job you worked so hard for suddenly feels meaningless.
Your body demands rest after years of pushing through.
Or maybe it’s quieter — that whisper: “This can’t be all there is.”
These cracks aren’t punishments. They’re invitations. They reveal where you’ve been living by old stories, and they open the door to your truth.
Remembering, Not Reinventing
Awakening is the process of peeling back those stories and conditioning.
It’s remembering:
The part of you that knows you’re already worthy.
The part of you that craves freedom, love, and peace.
The part of you that’s been buried under layers of “shoulds” and survival strategies.
This is what shadow work and integration are really about. Not fixing yourself, but bringing back the parts of you you’ve left behind.
My Experience
When my own Awakening began, I thought I had to reinvent myself completely. But what I discovered was far more liberating: I wasn’t broken. I wasn’t missing anything.
I simply had to meet the parts of myself I’d abandoned, bring them into the light, and let them guide me back to truth. That was where the real transformation happened.
The Real Gift
The gift of Awakening is this: you stop trying to become someone else. You start living as the person you’ve always been — the one who is whole, free, and aligned.
And from that place, everything changes.
Love feels deeper.
Money flows with more ease.
Life feels less like survival, more like creation.
Your Next Step
If you’ve been feeling the cracks opening, or hearing the whisper that life should be more, I created something to guide you:
✨ Becoming You: An Awakening Guide ✨
Inside, you’ll learn how to:
Recognise the signs of Awakening.
Spot the unconscious patterns that keep you stuck.
Reconnect with the truth of who you are.
You don’t need to become someone new. You need to remember who you already are.