I went to see my coach the other day and, after explaining what was bothering me, he delivered this profound thought: “If you want to feel safe, inhabit who you are.” You might be thinking, ‘What does that even mean?” A little more context might help.

One of the things that many people ruminate on is money and finances, myself included, regardless of how much money one has. My rumination stems from my youth, is unhealthy for me (in my opinion), and needs to change—and thus the coach. What he was saying was, at those moments of fear about money, people tend to feel helpless and out of control, but he changed that with one sentence—inhabit who you are! Or, like any good gangster in a movie would say, “What are you gonna do about it?” (Did you say it with a thick NY accent?)

“If you want to feel safe, inhabit who you are,” applies to almost anything! If you want to feel safe, stop thinking the answer is out there, beyond you somehow. It’s not! INHABIT WHO YOU ARE, and go fix it! For me, right now, the answer is in journaling about my youth and how finances played a role in my family. I don’t want my youth to be any different than it was, I simply want to be able to separate the two. We carry a lot of baggage that we don’t need to carry. The quote is, “If you want to feel safe, inhabit who you are,” not who you were. Ruminate on that.

Let’s GO! WE GOT THIS!
Beth