Enoughness. Isn't it time to feel you know who you are and what you do?
Enoughness.
Isn't that a great word?!
As a hybrid professional, that feeling has plagued my entire career. In the past, I often felt like I was too much or not enough, but finding my hybrid identity was about coming to terms with my enoughness and embracing my full self.
When you find a hybrid job, or create one for yourself, you get to be everything you want to be. You are enough.
This word jumped out to me as the title of a podcast. As I listened to a recent episode, Lisa Carmen Wang (the host) asked two questions that brought me to a dead stop. She asked:
“Who are you and what do you do?”
Being the start of a new year, I'm in reflection and intention setting mode. I wondered, when was the last time I asked myself those questions?
How would I answer them right now?
How would you answer them?
My immediate thought was, I'm a hybrid professional. I help people figure out their true identity.
However, I know I'm evolving and my hybridity is changing, and that's always a scary and unsettling feeling.
I'm not sure what kind of hybrid professional I am right now. I've been through this before, and each time I feel the anxiety rise and the tension build in my shoulders and lower back. It lasts for weeks, even months.
I know many of you experience this too. When you're going through your own identity shifts or career transitions, you've told me about the discomfort you feel in your mind and body, and we work through it together.
I've gone through many identity shifts before since identity is dynamic and contextual. It's a process of re-integrating new parts of myself and letting go of old identities. There's cognitive and emotional dissonance, questions of self-worth and self-doubt. Then, as suddenly and surely as the sun rises, my new hybrid identity emerges, I see the intersectionality I'm standing in, and I feel enoughness again.
“If you’re questioning who you are right now (or any time in the future), what if you tried on the feeling of enoughness and trusted that your hybrid identity will emerge?”
That's my hybrid tip for this week.
