Apr 7, 2026
Rewriting the stories you tell yourself
The narratives we carry about who we are were often written by someone else — a parent, a teacher, a partner. Learning to author your own is therapeutic work in itself.
Maya Okonkwo
Counsellor · 6 min read
The story you tell yourself about who you are is mostly inherited. A line from a parent, a comment from a teacher, a moment with a partner — they accumulate into a self-concept you didn''t consciously choose.
Therapy is, in part, learning to notice those lines and decide which ones still belong.
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