How to Reframe Your Identity with Storytelling

The stories we live out in daily life shape our view of ourselves.
Our stories tell us about our character, about what we believe and what we think we are capable of accomplishing.
So as we step more and more into our skills as a narrator and storyteller, we naturally increase our awareness of ourselves as the main character in our stories. And this feedback loop has a great impact, because we begin to bring awareness into the present moment.
At first, it's often quite ego-centric: "How do I want to tell people I reacted in this moment...I want them to think I'm brave or compassionate or composed."
But then we begin to realize it is how WE would like to view ourselves.
Our stories give us the access to shape our chosen Identity.
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| ABOUT REBECCA & INNER ARCHITECTURE |
Originally from Louisiana, I’m grateful to have lived in a number lovely places around the world before landing in Switzerland. After nearly ten years as an Interior Architect and Workplace Design Strategist, I realised that I was being drawn to spend more time with the people and less time with creating the physical spaces. In 2012, my curiosity sparked a journey of self-exploration that led to the founding of Inner Architecture - the playfully serious work of creating internal stability for external ease through mindset and inner-dialogue work.
I started creating these Inner Architecture Mini videos to document the learnings from my own experiences and learnings as I navigate and uncover new territory within the human mind. Every story I was sharing with clients seemed to bring some spark of insight, so I share them with the vision that these stories might inspire you. I’m incredibly grateful to do the work that I love every day, and I’m grateful to you for taking the time to connect and share in the learnings.

[@hopegrable]

Such wisdom spoken with such kindness and empathy. You sound like a fellow INFJ. I really enjoyed this video. Looking forward to watching more. 💕

[@inner-architecture]

Thank you for your kind words, Hope 🙏🏼 And we are very close! ENFJ, so a lot of resonance.

[@hopegrable]

@@inner-architecture that would explain the beautiful confidence you have in front of the camera. Well done, milady. 💖

[@SpiritualDevil]

I kind of think of it as "we are all children" and children don't have time to think about how someone else thinks about what they are saying. Truth is truth. So many documentaries on 'Flix right now show crimes that were just... Not dealt with... For decades (and longer)... Not because of one storyteller in the mix, but because so many people can't think beyond paper words and the egocentric way of "proving" right or wrong. As a kid... "I'm sorry, I didn't know that I was hurting your feelings!" As an adult... "I'm sorry, I didn't realize I was being an asshole!" And then in the other camp of adults (and kids alike), there are still a percentage who ARE assholes. In society as we are experiencing it, even our concept of storytellers is challenging among "our fathers" and the old wise tales shared generationally... Like a curse, or a sickness. UNease... DISease... Health is Wealth! Spend it Wisely! :)

[@inner-architecture]

As I read your words above, I feel for myself that there is much truth, but also many layers mixed up together that make me pause and question. So thank you for being thought provoking for me. I think this is why self-awareness and personal accountability for our identities (how we show up, both for ourselves and in response to the world around us), is so important. We can only work on what we can see, especially in ourselves. This is what I mean by choosing our story… choosing that when it would be easiest to show up as an asshole, I choose forgiveness or whatever aligns with how I want to be at my best. What do you think?