Who Are You

Who were you before the chaos?

Before the trauma.

Before the divorce.

Before the perfectionism.

Before you learned to shrink, to perform, to prove, to survive.

Who were you before the world told you who to be?

I ask everyone I work with two questions — and I mean them. I ask them slowly, and I wait.

Who are you — really?

And why are you here?

Most people can’t answer. They pause. They look down. They laugh nervously, because the question is too big, too true, too close.

Most people are punching the clock. Getting the paycheck. Going through the motions. Living a life they never chose, on a path they never questioned, toward a destination they can’t name.

They have no idea why they’re here. What their job is on this planet. What they came here to do.

I could never live like that.

I mean — I did. I did until I woke up.

I did until I started asking the real questions. Until I stopped letting the world define me. Until I looked underneath the trauma, the perfectionism, the fear — and found who I actually was.

And now I know.

I know who I am. I know why I’m here.

I’m here to lead. To show people they can heal themselves. To build heaven on earth. To lead people back into remembrance — back to the map that was always within them.

And I’m here to change the face of healthcare. Because the old way is broken. It treats the symptom, not the soul. It manages, but it doesn’t heal.

We are building the new earth. One person at a time. One awakening at a time. One who-are-you-really at a time.

So let me ask you — and I’ll wait, because the answer matters:

Who were you before the chaos?

And why are you here?

Because once you remember, you cannot go back to sleep.

Your time has come.

Becky Coots-Kimbley