I think it's more common that we think to undergo a narrative reconstruction of our identities, especially after or during a great life change or loss. 2020 was the beginning for me of realizing I'd spent my life living into the expectations other people had for me, and those expectations ended up being out of alignment with who I want to be and how I seek to exist. Rewriting those narratives was challenging and asked a lot of me and I would have loved to have someone to talk it through with as I was getting started. I had to challenge a lot of the stories I'd come to believe about myself and discover if I'd actually written them or if they'd been told by someone else for me to internalize. My process of narrative reconstruction wasn't easy, but it's been the best practice I've ever picked up. Every day I try and move my life more into alignment with who i aspire to be and how I want to exist. There has been loss in the rewriting, but what I've gained has been worth it.