Find yourself February: A Month of Self Discovery
February is for finding yourself.
At the beginning of the year, we’re often bombarded with the idea that it’s time for reinvention, but, in reality, it’s time for reflection. While resolutions and reaching for new goals (things that are better done in springtime, when the world is primed for new beginnings) are being encouraged, what we actually should be encouraging is turning inward, slowing down, and paying attention to who we are. Finding ourselves is the foundation that must be laid so that we can become our best selves in the months to come.
While thinking about this disconnect between the season of rest and the push for reinvention, I began to wonder, What if, instead of trying to fix ourselves this February, we tried to understand ourselves? What if we got to know ourselves better?
The topic of self-discovery has been on my mind ever since I started working on The Story of You back in 2024, so it feels fitting to use it as a guide for this time of self-reflection, which I’ve dubbed “Find Yourself February.” Created not for reinvention, but for self-reflection, The Story of You is the perfect companion for this season of self-discovery.
In creating The Story of You, I learned that the more you can hear your inner voice, the more you know yourself, the more you can respond clearly to others lives and to the world around you. Knowing yourself isn’t a selfish act. It’s a selfless one.
A lot of us pick up journals or books like The Story of You at the beginning of the year with the hope that they’ll guide us in the months to come. But then we fail to pick them up. We might do a page or two, but before we know it, they’re buried under papers on our desks or shoved on a bookshelf with the promise of returning someday.
I decided to create Find Yourself February as a way to dust off The Story of You and actually dive into the pages. Sometimes all we need is a little bit of structure when it comes to self-discovery.
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