Embracing Authenticity: The Mask We Wear

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A month-long reflection series for women ready to stop performing and start revealing.

There’s a version of you that knows how to perform. She knows how to be what’s expected. She knows how to keep the peace, hold the weight, and wear the mask.

But what happens when the mask starts to slip? When the role no longer fits? When the life you built around who you were… doesn’t quite hold who you’re becoming?

This October, I’m offering a series of writings called The Mask We Wear through my Overwhelm to Opportunity Coaching practice. It’s not a course. It’s not a challenge. It’s a quiet invitation to reflect, unravel, and begin again.

🌱 The Becoming

This is not the tidy part. This is the part where you feel raw, spacious, and slightly undone. Not because you’re broken—because you’re no longer pretending.

The Becoming is not a performance. It’s not a brand-new mask. It’s the quiet, trembling truth of who you are when no one is watching.

It’s the moment you realize you don’t need to be liked to be real. You don’t need to be understood to be whole. You don’t need to be strong to be worthy.

This is the part where your nervous system starts to recalibrate. Where your body begins to trust that it doesn’t have to brace for impact. Where your breath deepens—not because everything is fixed, but because you’ve stopped abandoning yourself.

The Becoming is not a finish line. It’s a threshold. And you don’t cross it by force—you cross it by surrender.

It’s the quiet knowing that you are allowed to take up space. That your softness is not a liability. That your truth is not too much.

If you’re here, you already feel it. The ache. The pull. The possibility.

You’re not broken. You’re becoming. And that’s the most powerful thing you can do.

This offering is for all who identify as women—including trans women. If you’re a trans man or nonbinary and feel this work speaks to you, I welcome a conversation. I trust you to know if this space is meant for you.

I don’t usually offer this kind of work on public platforms. But I know there are women quietly unraveling, quietly remembering, quietly becoming. And I wanted to offer something just for you.

🖤 The full series is available now—no sign-up, no funnel, no performance. Just words. Just truth. Just you.

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Author: Erika Patterson Coaching

Trauma coach. Story listener. Calm finder. I help women move from overwhelm to opportunity - through compassionate coaching, deep reflection, and powerful resets. Here to hold space for your next beginning.

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