Drafting a New Blueprint: The Path to Authenticity Beyond Midlife

One of our deepest human desires is to be seen, heard and understood.

It’s intrinsic to us; it runs silently in the background with the same energy that gives us breath and beats our hearts.

In the first half of our lives, we diligently follow the life blueprint we were given, the distilled essence of that blueprint:

Externals will make you happy and accepted by others.

When we diligently follow that blueprint, we create a dynamic where our outward success guarantees we’ll be seen and heard.

One can’t help but notice a beautiful home, car, clothes, and job title.

At the midpoint of our lives, we begin to reflect; we begin to feel that there’s more to life than checking off external markers of success.

We’re seen and heard, yet something’s “off.”

Those external markers may make us seen and heard, but they do not and cannot make us understood.

Because we’re not understood for who we are; we’re understood for who we believed we had to become to be happy and accepted.

We followed a life blueprint that wasn’t ours, and it doesn’t matter how much professional and materialistic success we acquire; we aren’t…