"You can have a full life, loving relationships, and a packed calendar-yet still feel strangely disconnected, listless, or quietly unhappy. If you rarely feel fulfilled, it may be because you've learned to manage life without truly inhabiting it. It's like staging a beautiful house that looks perfect from the outside but on the inside never quite feels safe, restful, or an expression of you. Coming home to yourself isn't about performing or fixing what's "wrong"-it's about finally reconnecting with who you are."
"To feel "at home" in yourself means you feel emotionally accepted, grounded, and authentic-both in your private inner world and in your closest relationships. When you're connected to your true self, your experiences feel right, even when they're painful. Grief after a loss can be devastating, but it also feels right. Fear before a meaningful challenge can be uncomfortable, yet also very human. These emotions are not signs that something is wrong with you-they are signs that you are alive and connected."
Avoiding painful emotions creates a subtle disconnection from the true self and reduces emotional presence despite outward success. People often cope by distancing, over-accommodating, numbing, or distracting with scrolling, streaming, snacking, drinking, overworking, or pills. These strategies feel automatic but push individuals further away from themselves and increase risk for anxiety, depression, substance use, and loneliness. Feeling at home in oneself means being emotionally accepted, grounded, and authentic in both inner life and close relationships. Painful emotions can feel right and human when one is connected. Compassionate self-awareness helps restore safety, grounding, and wholeness, and shapes every relationship.
Read at Psychology Today
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