How to find yourself again

“Sometimes, the disconnection with our own identity happens so quietly we don’t even notice - over decades of shading just a little piece of ourselves here and there in an effort to earn approval (or safety) from society at large or our parents or our partners or our business associates - until we wake up one day completely astonished at how far away from ourselves we’ve come to be (and stare at a wall, agape and dumbfounded, that we actually have no idea who we are NOW after all of this).”