Deborah Chalk, Author at Tiny Buddha

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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

By Deborah Chalk

“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 …