This question urges me to look past my basic needs of safety, security, and connection to deeper desires and my core values. What do I value most in life—and at this particular stage of the process I am in. However, my answer to this question continues to come back to one thing and that is experience.

Empathy is the ability to understand someone else’s thoughts and feelings of a situation… without judgment, without an agenda, without a solution.

Unfortunately, our conditioning from society tells us that you have to be one thing or have a “label” to define you, what you do, and where you belong. And for those with an undefined identity center, this can feel confusing. They don’t know where they belong. They can become preoccupied with earning titles and adding letters behind their name so they can be definable.

While there is growing evidence of its efficacy, hypnotherapy is a specialized type of therapy led by a certified hypnotherapist with formal training. The hypnotherapist works with you to guide you into a trance-like state so that you become more open to change.