Multifaceted or Fragmented?: Understanding the Chameleon

Are you aware of how you may change in different situations? Do you realize when it’s helpful and when it's a hindrance? This week we are digging into those self concepts and identities a little more.

We’ll be exploring some of the thinking around whether having numerous identities is a good, bad - or my stance - nuanced thing. I’ll be sharing two academic concepts to explore the different perspectives around being fluid and flexible in the ways we show up.

I discuss:

- How we are the result of things that served and protected us at the time. 

- The idea that self concept -is organized into multiple components and identities.

- SCD - Self Concept Differentiation - the degree to which the identities are the same or differ across personally important roles.

- How we are influenced by our environment and experiences which is a result of our minds doing what it felt was required at the time.

- Self-Complexity as a cognitive buffer against stress-related illness and depression, by Patricia Linville.

… and more!

Today’s exercise: Create a grid of boxes and think about the core elements and identities that go into who you are - do you want to add or remove some?

Books mentioned in this episode: 

Breaking the Ocean: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion and Reconciliation by Annahid Dashtgard and Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers. 

Stay connected with Lauren: https://www.instagram.com/laurenaisharc/

Email Lauren: [e-mail]