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Deborah Chalk loves coaching writers, women who support their families and partner's careers and multi-passionate women. She is a Martha Beck Certified Life Coach. She lives in Hamburg, Germany with her lovely family where she reads too many self-help books, does ballet and listens to her flat-coated retriever singing when she play piano. You can find her at www.deborahchalk.com.

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Releasing Labels: Be What You Love, Not What You Do

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“Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are.” ~Brené Brown

I thought I was supposed to have a shiny job, the kind that makes people envious at cocktail parties.

We had moved with my husband’s job again. I think it was move number six out of nine and we were over at a friend’s house. There were people I didn’t know there, and I could feel myself avoiding them in case they asked “the question.”

The question was “So,” (pause to look at drink), “what do …