Your identity consists of your beliefs and ideas that you hold to be true about yourself. But a lot of us wrap our identity around the roles we have been assigned and taken on in our lives or our past experiences. And, we will decide what we are capable of based on those roles and experiences.

In this episode of The Andrea Engstrom Show (podcast), STEP INTO YOUR IDENTITY, I share a lot of things I would call accomplishments. But over the years, I also dropped out of college. I quit my first marriage. I went into debt. I developed a drinking problem. I gained 100 pounds. I sabotaged my relationships by being critical and blaming everyone around me for my unhappiness.

I didn’t manage my stress well. I tried a million different ways to comfort myself in my suffering. These were all symptoms of what was going on inside me and I needed to  ...