Finding Yourself: Reconnecting to Who You Truly Are
Finding Yourself: Reconnecting to Who You Truly Are There was a time in my life when I realized — I had no idea who I really was. I got married at 16, before I ever had the chance to figure out who Rachel was. From that point on, my world revolved around everyone else, being who I thought I was supposed to be, a wife, a mother, a caretaker. I didn’t know how to separate what I wanted from what others needed. My identity was built on survival, keeping everyone else okay, while completely forgetting about myself in the process. It wasn’t until years later, when I found myself a single mom with no career, raising my children on my own, that everything started to unravel. I was working four different jobs just to keep food on the table and the lights on. I was exhausted, burned out, and running purely on survival mode. At that point, I was on every kind of government assistance imaginable. And I remember feeling so ashamed, like I had failed somehow. But looking back, I see n...
