EP.352: You Are Not Your Résumé - Detaching from the Roles You Play

Ever caught yourself introducing yourself as your job title before anything else? In this episode, we're diving deep into the trap of role identification and how it might be silently limiting your growth, happiness, and potential.

As high-achieving health professionals, we're often vulnerable to merging our identity with our professional roles. The line between "I am a dietitian" and "I work as a dietitian" might seem subtle, but it creates a profound difference in how we navigate challenges, embrace change, and define our worth.

Through neuroscience insights, personal stories, and practical exercises, this episode offers a roadmap for (re)discovering who you truly are beyond your résumé, credentials, and achievements. You'll learn how to maintain excellence in your work while creating psychological freedom that allows for greater creativity, resilience, and fulfillment.

 

 

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE

• The surprising ways role identification creates anxiety, fear of failure, and resistance to change

• How your brain creates and maintains your sense of self (and why change can feel threatening on an existential level)

• The critical difference between your "core self" and your constructed professional identity

• Practical language shifts that create psychological flexibility and reduce stress

• Daily practices for loosening the grip of role identification without sacrificing excellence

• How to handle others' expectations when you begin to separate your worth from your work

• The counterintuitive relationship between professional detachment and career growth

 

This episode provides both the science and the soul of identity transformation. You'll walk away with immediate practices to implement, a deeper understanding of your attachment patterns, and a framework for discovering your authentic self beyond the roles you play.

Whether you're feeling burned out, facing a career transition, or simply seeking more peace in your professional journey, these insights will help you create a healthier relationship with your work while expanding your sense of who you are and what's possible.

Remember, "Your résumé is a record of what you've done, not who you are."

 

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