How to Know Thyself

4 Tools and 3 Practices to know yourself better

Some people know themselves naturally: their unique tastes, desires, intricacies. That wasn’t the case for me.

From a young age, I learned that success was found in appeasing others (supposedly). I became a people pleaser from the very beginning, and was pretty good at it. But in a childhood survival technique, I lost myself. I’m trying to recover it now.

I don’t know if you’re in the same boat, but if so, welcome aboard! A journey of self-discovery can actually be a fun one, if you let it. That is, as long as you forgive your childhood ego. I beat myself up for years for going down wrong paths because I didn’t even know what I wanted…such wasted time…

Who am I? What do I even like? What makes me unique?

If you want to dig deeper into you, the true you (who you are in your purest form, who you were as a child), not a “false self” that Thomas Merton refers to, here are a few ideas that might help you along your journey.