Inner Work: A Spiritual Growth Podcast

In the process of personal transformation and healing, you'll often find yourself existing somewhere between your “old self” and your “new self.” The “old self” is the identity that has served you up until now, which you have likely outgrown and are now seeking to shed. This “old self” is made up of the collection of attachments, self-perceptions, habits, behaviors, choices, and coping mechanisms (or “life strategies”) you’ve been carrying with you from the past. Your “new self” is your emerging identity and new way of BEING in the world, made up of the collection of conscious choices, behaviors, beliefs, and life strategies you’re stretching yourself into. This is part of your expansion, part of your awakening. This brilliant Self – your true self - is revealed, layer by layer, the more you shed anything that doesn’t reflect the truth of who you are. As you expand, you often have to “straddle” this in-between state: that state when your new Self hasn’t fully emerged, and your old self is still sometimes ru