Midlife Crisis is Real

I've been going through a lot these days. The old beliefs are crashing down. 

As babies we're 100% vulnerable and without boundaries. We learn through interacting with our caregivers. We respond to input and reactions. We then form a sense of self based upon this. Beliefs and emotional scaffolding begin to from. Almost on autopilot we live and trust this model into our 20's, 30's, 40's, and we simply accept this as gospel. The filters and lens we see life through becomes our identity. That is until we start introspecting and looking back and asking why we act in a certain way or why shame wells up with triggers.

Well, it's the scaffolding. The lens. Emotional beliefs hold up this framework. But that scaffolding and belief system is that of the child's and is based upon core emotions, coping mechanisms, survival. It is not capable of upholding an adults life with jobs, relationships, and responsibilities. 

As more pressure is put upon it, It starts to rust and eventually comes crashing down. And with it jobs, relationships, lives. 

But the who you've been waiting for might just be on the other side of this and you will no longer be trapped by this outdated identity and belief system, the paradigm of roles you've been living within. 

Buying a Porsche just might be easier...

I'm kidding of course. The only way to the other side is through...

Take a listen. 

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