What story are you still living inside?

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Welcome to Week Three of The Identity Shift

Last week, we anchored into noticing, without judgment, without performance.

This week, we step into something more profound: the stories we’ve absorbed, repeated, and mistaken for truth.

You are not the narrative that fear wrote.

You’re the person who gets to choose what stays.

Week-by-Week Progress Tracker

Week 1: The Quiet Shift (Past Issue)
Week 2: The Power of Noticing (Past Issue)
Week 3: The Stories We Tell Ourselves (You are here)
Week 4: Becoming the Noticer
Week 5: Living from the Lens
Week 6: The Gentle Return

TL;DR

We all live with a story running in the background.

Sometimes it keeps us grounded.
Other times, it keeps us small.

This week is about naming the story you’ve outgrown and choosing something better.
You don’t need to erase the past.
You just need to stop letting it drive.

The story I was living didn’t sound dramatic.

It sounded like a whisper.

Like: you’re better when you’re in control.
Or: you’re falling behind again.
Or: if you don’t keep moving, you’ll lose everything.

I didn’t question it, because it sounded like me.

But when I finally gave that voice a shape, I realised it wasn’t mine.
It was something I’d inherited.
Something I’d adapted to survive.

And survival stories don’t always translate to growth.

You can’t become someone new while living under the rules of who you used to be.

Some stories aren’t loud.

They don’t shout.
They just keep repeating themselves until we mistake them for the truth.

But noticing a story is how it starts to loosen.
Naming it is how you begin to outgrow it.

You don’t have to fight it.
You just have to stop letting it lead.

Identity Anchor of the Week

“I don’t need to repeat the story to stay safe. I can choose a new one.”

Let it sit with you.

Not as a fix, but as an opening.

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Gratitude Gem

This Week’s Practice (CTA)

Write down one sentence you hear in your head too often.

Then write a new one beside it.

You don’t need to believe it yet.

You just need to give it a place to begin.

Until next week,

Gavin

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