Embrace Your True Self​

If you do not meet yourself with honesty, compassion, and presence, you risk treating even yourself as an It—a means to an end (like chasing status, money, or perfection). That disconnection inevitably spills over into your external relationships.

In I-Thou terms: meeting yourself first, with presence and no judgment, allows you to meet others authentically. You radiate congruence, which naturally draws like-minded souls. Otherwise, as we’ve consistently observed, inauthenticity only attracts the same.

The burnout and emptiness we pervasively observe? Those are classic I-It traps: using life as a tool for money or external validation alone, while ignoring our inner gifts and deeper purpose. True being—Being Me—means aligning with your soul’s talents and living from that authentic truth.