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What If Everything You Thought Was ‘You’ Isn’t True?
Jo-Ann Panneton Jo-Ann Panneton

What If Everything You Thought Was ‘You’ Isn’t True?

What if everything you thought was “you” may actually be:

  • A collection of inherited beliefs

  • Social expectations

  • Roles you learned to play

  • Coping strategies from childhood

  • Narratives shaped by other people’s opinions

Which means… your identity isn’t fixed — it’s flexible, evolving, and often misunderstood. And the real you lives underneath the conditioning.

Midlife becomes the moment where the illusion cracks.
And the authentic self finally steps forward.

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