Overcoming deep-seated shame and dismantling ego to achieve radical self-honesty

I would say remembering really being honest with yourself. I think I was taking pride in having dismantled maybe a few outer layers of ego and lying to myself about a few ones that were left. And just remembering is like my one precious life. And just to live it, just to be myself. I want to meet my potential, but I want to do that in a way that I'm also living. I can find a balance where I'm fulfilled by what I'm doing and I'm using my brain and I'm using my abilities and there's room to enjoy what that's producing, too. Just, like, that I'm free really. I don't need to react to anything around me, actually. I mean, survival situations aside, I'm in charge of how I react and act and I'm in charge of what I do, not how that might be received or perceived. My name is Mia Medicus. I'm living in San Francisco, California. Had been already working through some themes in therapy. There was this moment of just complete conviction that nothing is wrong with me and I don't really have limitations. I mean, I know there's ones that there's time that has passed and obviously there's, like, limitations that naturally occur but I don't really have the type of limitations that I was concerned about or thinking about. I think first and foremost, just, like, being honest with myself and it's gonna be uncomfortable at times but shame is not in charge of me and I had a big moment at one point during the pods of reconnecting my different inner selves at different ages. And something that was really empowering for me was owing it to them. They got through what they had to get through so I could be here today where I am now and owing it to them to do the most with that. And just to let go of shame. Like, I'm just ready to let go of it. It doesn't have a place anymore and that means that it's okay to always be really honest with myself. You'd rather admit that you made a wrong turn than spend your life going down the wrong path.