How to Break Up With Yourself

Sometimes you reach a point where you realize something: It’s not working.

Making a personal decision to make change is a sign of extreme self-awareness and strength.

We have all been in bad relationships and have had to work up the courage and strength to break up. It’s emotional. It’s stressful. It is most certainly not easy. But typically, in the end, romantic break-ups are good for both sides.

But if you come a point where you need to break up with yourself, it is just as hard; if not harder.

When you determine you need to break up with yourself, it could come to that point for a multitude of reasons.

Perhaps you’ve been wasting your time on something for the wrong reasons? Or maybe you have found a new passion but can’t seem to let go of an old one. Or maybe you know you are no longer passionate about something but can’t seem to let go?

When you find yourself in this situation, knowing you feel this way is half of the battle. Just like in a personal relationship, knowing something isn’t right is half of the process.

When it is you who is doing the breaking up and the one getting broken up with, it takes courage and self-awareness to make a change in your life. But that process of breaking up is liberating, freeing, and inspiring.

By freeing yourself from … yourself … you give yourself permission to chase new passions and new drives and begin anew.