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Identity Shifts



Our sense of identity is created through our sense of belonging to certain groups, classifications, or relationships, such as daughter, uncle, athlete, straight-A student, vegetarian, lawyer, or tea enthusiast. Navigating our approach to life after gaining or losing an important new facet of identity can be daunting or unsettling; when we suddenly lose a key relationship or membership we’ve relied on to identify ourselves, we can even experience an identity crisis. Death of a family member, job loss, divorce, and life-altering injuries are all common major events that challenge the very core of how we define ourselves. At the same time, discovering a new way of defining ourselves through a new label, relationship, or life transition can give us an exhilarating sense of liberation and empowerment. Seeing our identity as a dynamic—not static—feature of ourselves can help leave us open to the constant changes and opportunities our life has to offer.

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New Mothers, Let’s Talk About Your Professional Identity Crisis

Parenthood — especially for women — changes you. After giving birth, the brain actually redesigns itself, trimming old connections and building new ones. If you’re someone who has constructed your adult identity around your career, these changes to how you operate can shake your foundations.

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Finding Your Identity Beyond Motherhood | AmandaMuse

Can you love and dislike things in motherhood all at the same time?! Join me LIVE for the conversation all about Finding Your Identity BEYOND Motherhood. Thanks for watching, XO, AmandaMuse!

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Resolving the Identity Crisis When Leaving the Military

For the first time in my life, I had to figure out who I was, I had to find my why, and I had to determine what I truly wanted for my life.

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Losing Your Identity to Motherhood

Thank you so much for watching and I hope TODAY you know that you are loved, treasured... beautifully and wonderfully made. Remember that there is no one in the world like you. You are a gift to the rest of us! xoxo Jeannie

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Returning Vets Face ‘Warring Identities’ Distress

A paper co-authored by R.

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Finding your New Normal: Coping with Change After Cancer (US)

This presentation will help patients and their families understand and navigate the various lifestyle and role changes that can occur after a cancer diagnosis.

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How to Rediscover Your Sense of Self in Motherhood

The pressure to become Super Mom is overwhelming at times — even suffocating for some. For this reason, women often succumb to the pressures of becoming an overachieving mother to the point that they end up losing their identity in the process.

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Motherhood: Exploring the Birth of a New Identity

We know motherhood has a deep impact on all levels: psychological, physical, professional, emotional. But what does it mean to be a mum today?

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Adoptive Moms: Common Emotions and Coping Skills

Now that the newness of motherhood has worn off, you feel down, and you can’t stop asking yourself why. You didn’t expect to feel anything other than happiness.

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How Much a Dementia Patient Needs to Know

Should a doctor replace an accustomed identity with a meaningless “reality”?

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