Living someone else's narrative means organizing your life around expectations not your own, playing a role in a drama you did not write, having experiences that do not feel like yours. You might look successful while feeling hollow because the success belongs to the story, not to you.
Living in wrong story means confusion about who you are, disconnection from your own plot, feeling like a character rather than author.
Reclaiming your story means rewriting the narrative, telling your truth even when it contradicts theirs, becoming author of your own life.
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Content informed by trauma research, polyvagal theory (Stephen Porges), somatic experiencing (Peter Levine), and nervous system regulation studies. For comprehensive citations and further reading, see Unfiltered Wisdom: The Book.
About the Author
Robert Greene is the author and founder of Unfiltered Wisdom, a US Navy veteran, and a trauma survivor with over 10 years of experience in nervous system regulation and somatic healing. He is certified in Yoga for Meditation from the Yogic School of Mystic Arts (Dharamsala, India, 2016) and affiliated with Holistic Veterans, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit serving veterans in Santa Cruz, California.