Alexandra NielDivorce Recovery Coach, ANiel International, LLC. · I help women who held it all together through divorce finally build a life that’s actually theirs | Thrive After Divorce

When our Career is our Identity #shorts

30 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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In this short reflective monologue, the speaker shares how, early in their corporate career, they let work become the core of their identity, neglecting other roles such as sister, friend, partner, and mother. This over‑identification leads to burnout, stress, and a chaotic hustle mindset. The speaker urges listeners to pause, reassess their core values, and deliberately adjust behaviors and habits so that their actions align with a more balanced, multi‑dimensional sense of self.

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When I was in my earlier days in corporate, my career was everything. I had to thrive and drive and hustle. And after a while, our career becomes who we are. And we forget that we're also sisters, friends, partners, mothers. All of those things make up who we are. And when we're so focused on one thing, which in this case would be career, we like— there's a whole other universe about ourselves that we're not exploring. And it also leads to that burnout and the stress and that those, those, those chaotic feelings of hustle because we're not balanced in how we approach our life. So that's a perfect time to reassess what our values are, and then we can change our behaviors and our habits to make sure that our values are congruent with what we want our new situation to look like.