I Am Thine

Are you confused about the direction of your life?
Do you feel like you don’t know who you really are?
Are you having trouble deciding where you stand in terms of your philosophy of life?
Have you failed to see your role in life?

These are the key questions for diagnosing the condition known as “identity crisis” — a term first coined by the developmental psychologist Erik Erikson some fifty years ago. Erikson believed that the formation of identity was one of the most important parts of a person’s life. Who we say we are; who we think we are; and who we believe the rest of the world thinks we are, governs virtually everything we do in life. And should any of these tightly held assumptions about ourselves be called into question, it may feel like the entire world is crashing in on us. As obvious as it seems, it bears repeating. Our identity is really the most important thing…