This is a YouTube video titled "Discovering your true identity" featuring Beverley Simpson speaking about self-discovery, personal growth, and the challenges of revealing one's true self beyond societal masks and roles such as being an athlete. The content is a monologue or personal reflection recorded in September 2023.
Who are you fundamentally? And that's a difficult question to ask if you don't take the time to get to know yourself. And so I spent a lot of time by myself figuring out what do I like, what am I interested in? What are parts about myself that I was too afraid to put out into the world because I felt like I would be judged. Right. So what are am I if I take off all of the walls that I've built to protect myself and all the kind of the masks that we wear. Right. Being an athlete was a mask. And so it's like, it allowed me to express myself in a way where I didn't have to use words to say how I was. And so, for me, that was a great outlet, especially as a kid.
