This week in The Back Room, I explore the unexpected downside of personal growth and how healing can quietly become another way of hiding. What began as a simple strengths assessment revealed a deeper pattern: I had spent years treating myself like a project to be fixed instead of a person to be known. I share how shadow work helped me understand my wounds but also trained me to overlook the gifts that had been carrying me all along. Along the way, I unpack the role of being the sidekick in my own life and how focusing on everyone else's strengths made my own nearly invisible. This episode is about the difference between being unfinished and believing you're broken, and what changes when you finally allow yourself to see the whole house instead of just the cracks.
