Becoming Who You Truly Are

A raw, honest journey through healing, solitude, integration, and self-awareness. For the black sheep, the cycle breakers, the deeply sensing souls. This isn’t surface-level advice. This is soul work. Read with your heart open.

5/18/20254 min read

birds flying under blue sky during daytime
birds flying under blue sky during daytime

A message for the Chosen Ones—the Black Sheep, the Cycle Breakers, the Healers.

1. To the One Who Never Fit In

You were never meant to. You were born different because you’re here to do something different.

Every family has one—the black sheep. The outlier. The quiet soul who looks around and says, “This ends with me.” That’s you.

You didn’t come to play it safe. You came to break chains, to shatter illusion, to heal what generations before you couldn’t even name.

If you think differently, if you believe in things differently—
If you see and feel the world in a way others don’t—
That’s not a flaw. That’s your compass.

You feel everything deeply.
You don’t always have the words, but you just know.

You’ve always sensed there was more—more truth, more depth, more meaning.

You are not broken. You are not too much.
You are chosen.

But this path isn’t easy. It’s sacred. It’s brutal. It’s beautiful.

2. Solitude: The Sacred Portal

You will walk alone sometimes.
Not because you’re unlovable—
But because your soul needs silence to remember who you are.

Most people avoid solitude. They drown in distraction.

But not you.

Because in your silence, God whispers.
In your solitude, the truth rises.

Babies grow in dark wombs. Seeds bloom in buried soil.
The dark is not your enemy—it’s where the light begins to shine. It’s where you become.

“Don’t run away from the storm—run through it.”

When you sit in stillness, the illusions start to fade.

You begin to realize:

You are not your thoughts.
You are not your trauma.
You are not your parents’ pain.

You are the sky.
And your thoughts? Just clouds passing through.

"When a thought comes into your mind—just observe it.
Let it move, just like the sky watches the clouds drift by.
You don’t chase the clouds. You don’t become the clouds.
You are the sky: vast, still, eternal."

Your thoughts do not define you.

They are simply the result of a brain that’s been wired to survive—
A machine built on memory, pattern, and repetition.
Just like a computer that learns your habits,
Your brain runs on old programs—some that began in childhood.
When you react, when you get triggered—that’s not you.
That’s an echo of an old neural path, firing again.

But you?
You are not the machine.
You are not this body.
You are the one driving it.

“Your heart is your master, and your brain is your servant.”

Let your soul lead. Let your heart guide.
The mind is powerful—but it was never meant to be in control.

When you remember this,
You stop being controlled by your reactions—
And start responding from your truth.

Your brain may be the loudest voice,
But your soul is the wisest.

3. Why Most People Don’t Heal

“Healing is for everybody, but not everybody is for healing."

Because healing demands more than talking.
It demands transformation.

Real healing is not a trend.
It’s not something you can sprinkle on top of a broken life and expect miracles.

It requires an ecosystem shift.
That might mean leaving the job.
The partner.
The friendship.
The country.
Even the family.

Most people won’t do it.
They want relief without rupture.
They want change without loss.

But healing doesn’t work that way.

You can’t go back to the same environment that broke you— Not if you truly want to become whole.
The space around you must change, Because energy is contagious. And old triggers recreate old wounds.

So you have to change your ecosystem.
Your inputs. Your habits. Your people.

And most people won’t do that.

But you?
You’ve already lost too much not to change.

“Familiar chaos often feels safer than unfamiliar peace.”

But you’re not here to play safe—
You’re here to become free.

4. Integration

The True Test Awareness isn’t the finish line. It’s the initiation. After the awakening comes the work: Can you live what you’ve learned?

Will you choose love when fear rises again?

Will you honor your truth when it costs you comfort?

You’re not just here to understand. You’re here to embody. To become. Healing isn’t about becoming someone new—it’s about returning to who you were before the world told you to be small. This is your homecoming.

5. The Sacred Practice: Daily Self-Awareness

This path needs ritual.
Not for performance, but for presence.

Check in with yourself—daily, honestly, without judgment.

Sit down and think:

  • What did I do today?

  • Did I hurt anybody—say anything out of line?

  • Did I go out of character?

  • Did anything trigger me?

  • Do I need to fix, release, or forgive something?

Then make notes.
Write it down.
Let your truth meet the page.

This is self-awareness. And "without self-awareness, you have no direction—
Like a balloon drifting through the sky with no string, no anchor, no destination."

But when you practice this daily,
You catch your patterns early.
You stop letting the past run the present.
You become intentional.
You become free.

Be a better person than you were yesterday.
Evolve.
Refine.
Return to the best version of yourself—the real you.

Final Words

Walk alone if you must.
Bleed truth.
Burn what no longer fits.
Feel everything.
Face yourself.
Integrate the pain.
Own your story.
This is how you come back home—
to the real you.

"Embrace the unknown instead of fearing the unknown,
that’s where you birth the real you.
The you that you are going to love."

And remember:
You are the sky. Your thoughts are just clouds — passing, shifting, fading.
Don’t chase them. Don’t become them. Just notice. Feel the stillness underneath it all.
You are not your thoughts.
You are the one who sees.
You are your soul.

And that’s where you return —To who you truly are.

Tools for the Soul: What Can Support Your Healing Journey

1. Meditation Candles with Essential Oils
Create sacred space. Light, breathe, and be with yourself.

2. The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
Let go. Be real. Learn that you are already enough.

3. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
Understand your trauma. Reclaim your body. Begin to heal.

4. Guided Journals for Self-Reflection
Track your triggers. Notice your growth. Remember who you are.

5. Mindfulness Exercises Cards
Quick and effective practices to enhance daily mindfulness.

6.Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future by Yung Pueblo
Release past burdens and cultivate inner peace and clarity.