What living authentically also means is being radically honest. About your desires, your boundaries, your opinions. To yourself & others. When you start living authentically, you will become both sides of a magnet. You will attract & repel people and both will be constructive.

Trauma creates autonomic nervous system dysregulation. It is not an identity.

Without a healthy foundation, you can never build a palace

Some of us have compromised foundations because it was never set up right in the first place (childhood trauma). Some foundations get compromised later on, by external factors. Luckily you can choose to rebuild your foundation when you acknowledge your pain.