Have you ever felt like you didn’t quite fit in?

Maybe you’ve spent years trying to be who you thought other people wanted you to be. You worried about saying the right thing, making a good impression, or being accepted. Yet no matter how hard you tried, you still felt like something was missing.

I know that feeling well.

For much of my life, I believed I had to change who I was in order to belong. I spent years trying to fit in, only to discover that belonging doesn’t begin when other people accept us.

It begins when we accept ourselves.