Justin Patrick Pierce explains why feeling like an imposter when you try to be yourself isn't a sign of fraud. It's what happens when you're learning to embody something new, like learning an instrument. The discomfort fades as your body practices the unfamiliar patterns until they feel natural.
You brought up a really beautiful point, feeling like an imposter. Has anyone else felt that before in any of these exercises? A lot of people, right? Doing this work, I think it's the hardest fucking thing in the world to be you, like authentically you. And until we start diving into the parts of our truths and letting them actually run through our bodies, we realize That thing that I thought was my truth wasn't my truth. That was my dad. That was my mom. That was this belief. That was this. It was never my truth. So now I'm embodying the authentic me, but it feels like a fucking imposter. But when you're learning to play an instrument, you have to copy. You're learning to sing. When you're learning to speak, you have to copy. And you have to be an imposter at first. But then once you kind of learn, oh wow, that actually is the way that my truth moves and speaks through my body. Oh, that's the fucking posture that I'm looking for to convey my truth. And then you learn it, and then in the moment you now have access to that pattern where it wasn't there before. So I just wanted to share that sediment because I think Feeling like an imposter comes up a lot in this work. But it's not that you're an imposter. It's that you're liberating something that's unfamiliar in your body so you can learn to access it when it is your truth. Does that make sense?
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