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Alyson Haines's avatar

Really appreciated this topic - I think the idea of authenticity is something so many people grapple with

and something that feels hard to talk about because we grew up being told to ‘fit in’ not necessarily stay true to ourselves and even when I thought I was being true to myself I would begin to uncover even more layers of self that made me question everything I knew to be “true” but everyday I feel like I get a little bit closer to meeting my truest essence of self. It takes a lot of courage to stay the path and not give up on living authentically in a world overrun with synthetics.

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Emilie's avatar

That's a beautiful mission! I like your project name: simple, yet very straightforward. Because there's nothing more fulfilling than striving for an authentic life.

But authentic evokes fear. When you think and feel differently, when you create new things, when you don't follow the status quo... It implies misunderstanding and rejection. Pretty terrifying.

You wrote about your children, and that made me think about how we did everything so spontaneously in our younger years. Like magic. So authenticity might just be an innate human trait. And it might be possible to re-access it.

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