Are You Using Your Personality to Mask Who You Really Are?
Understanding the different types of masks we wear can free us from their bonds once and for all.
Are you masking who you really are with your personality? It’s not a trick question. What is the face you show most often to the world? Do you play victim? Do you play bully? Or, do you prefer to put on the mask of an overachiever and perfectionist?
Masks exist to conceal who we really are, or what we fear most. They exist as the wall between the world and our pain. We hide our trauma behind them, our true desires. We put on the face of someone else in order to create the connections we crave.
These masks do us a great disservice, though, when we place them between ourselves and the reality we desire. For us to manifest a life that is safe, rewarding, and complete, we must break out of the masks that no longer fit and become the type of person who can exist authentically within themselves.
Masking as a means of survival.
Our personality is kind of the ethereal face of our humanity. It’s where our wit shines, our values and beliefs. Personality is one of the primary means through which we form our deepest bonds, and it informs everything from our lifestyles to the…
