Unlocking The Magic Within

The Grief of Who You Used To Be: Navigating Identity Shifts & Becoming Your Next Self

Nicole Sanguinetti

Have you been feeling different lately? Not quite yourself… but not quite your next self either?

There’s a tender, often unspoken grief that appears during seasons of deep personal and spiritual transformation: the grief of who you used to be. It’s the quiet unraveling that happens when old identities, patterns, roles, and versions of yourself no longer feel like home, even if they once held everything together.

If you’ve been feeling emotional, untethered, nostalgic, or confused by your own inner shifts, you may be moving through identity grief. The emotional and spiritual process of outgrowing an older version of yourself.

This episode is a soft, honest exploration of that in-between place. We’re talking about why identity shifts feel so tender, how spiritual awakening dissolves outdated roles, why this grief often intensifies toward the end of the year, and what it means to release a version of yourself who once protected you.

I’m also sharing pieces of my own journey. The identities I didn’t realize I had outgrown, the ways grief reshaped me from the inside out, and what it looked like to honor the version of myself who carried me to this threshold.

If you’re feeling tender, emotional, or quietly transformed… this episode is for you.

In this episode, we cover:

• What identity grief is and why it impacts you so deeply
• How spiritual growth dissolves old identities and patterns
• Why becoming your next self often feels like losing stability
• The moment you realize you’ve outgrown a past version of yourself
• A personal reflection on the identities I shed this year
• How grief accelerates identity shifts and spiritual awakening
• Why this transition is an initiation into your next era
• A gentle way to honor the self that’s ending

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