Rachel’s Wellbeing Blog

I stared at my calendar, first cup of coffee in hand. I saw all the blue blocks of time adjacent to one another. My day (my life that day) was scheduled from the time I logged on to the time I would log off to pick up my kids from school. I had back to back meetings all day. I skimmed through the meetings to see if I really needed to be in them (I am conscious of not meeting just for the sake of meeting). But I did. There was a reason I needed to be at each of them. I was being consulted on something or was collecting information from someone. They were all legit. Hmm. I know this is a familiar tune. I know people do this day after day. So I started my day and got through a few of them and happily so - I love the work I do and the people I work with so this is time well-spent. But then around noon, with my head spinning from the information exchanged in the first half of the day, I knew I still had another half a day of meetings to go. I couldn’t do it. I felt totally overwhelm...

You know what is a really fun concept to dive into? Authenticity. Authenticity . I even like the word itself. Authenticity is defined as “representing one’s true nature or beliefs, true to oneself.” Isn’t that delicious? Don’t we all just want permission to be true to ourselves? Isn’t authenticity the quality we search for so deeply and admire most in others? Brene Brown says “Authenticity is a collection of choicers that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.” It is so obvious to me when I meet someone who is being entirely themselves. And not from a place of rebellion (although I understand the need for that) but I’m talking about those people who are just totally content being who they are in this world. It is a quality that is so intoxicating to be around. We spend so much of our lives trying to conform to who we think we should be or how we should act or what we should l...