October Affirmations: Owning Your Identity

Hey friends!

Happy October! I truly can't believe that this is the last quarter of 2021. It has been quite a year, but when I look back, I am incredibly grateful for all that I experienced — the highs and the lows.

This year has been a challenge for me, a large part because I have been having a pre-30 identity crisis! Between entering the last year of my 20s and navigating this global pandemic, I started to question everything I thought I knew about myself.

One of the biggest changes I've experienced is that I realized how much of my identity has been wrapped into working in the communications industry.

Technically I've been in communications for over 10 years. While in high school, I worked at a teen newspaper and I was active in my field throughout college. My career has evolved as I dabbled in journalism, public relations, social media, and influencer marketing. This year I started to feel like this isn't what I want to do anymore, and that this version of myself no longer fits me. I know that there is more to me than the communications professional, and I am (finally) giving myself the grace of discovering the other layers of me.

I know that I am different than I was pre-COVID, as we all are!

This has inspired me to own my identity, which is what I wanted to center this month's affirmations around.

Meditate on these affirmations to own your identity and re-invent yourself as often as you need to.