The Loudest Narrative: A short series of blog posts
In the past year or so I’ve been working on and through some internal roadblocks that I never realized were taking up real estate in my head. Undoubtedly, these have accumulated as a result of socialization, the few who have the most control over the loudest narrative and likely, my own internal programming plus a crap ton of uncertainty courtesy of my depression. (Thanks a lot, ya d-bag.)
Since completing my treatment for PMADs 1.5 years ago, I’ve become more and more confident in who I am by reclaiming that person, and pushing back on ideas or beliefs that have been pounded into my head, like they have been for so many of us.
Specifically, I’ve broken these narratives (which is not by any means an exhaustive list, btw):
“Your career path, if successful, ‘should’ look like this.”
“That isn’t a ‘real’ adult life.”
In many cases, these narratives were never challenged because many people were not confident enough to do so.
…that isn’t me. Not anymore.
I present to you a series of blog posts that challenge some of those loud narratives, and why they are not inherently true. They are merely narratives that have no more or less weight than any others. Check out future posts to read on.
And you know what? I plan to add more narratives as they pop up. So there, loud narratives! I don’t even have to decide now what EVERYTHING is going to be. I can do it as I go because I’m not functioning parallel to your narrative unless I agree with it.
In friendship and cheesecake,