Rockin' Life With Colleen Crain

Day 3 of the Week of Empowerment. You Are Not Your Story We hear it all the time. Everybody has a story and it’s true. Everybody does have a story. But what we must realize is that we are not our stories. We are not the things that happen to us or around us. In yesterday’s interview, Monique Moliere Piper talked about this.  For most of her childhood, she grew up in poverty in the middle of a dangerous and violent neighborhood and those dangers touched her family and caused injury and pain. But Monique said “Where I am is NOT who I am.” Just because the voices around us or more importantly inside of us seem to say that we are in our circumstances because of who we are doesn’t make it true.  Yes it can be hard to separate ourselves from our stories or circumstances.  If we tell ourselves that we were rejected because we are unlovable or incapable, then every rejection becomes about our perception of ourselves as unlovable or incapable. Really, that rejection is just