🌹 Returning to What Is True

Beyond “my truth” and into the Truth of Being.

There is a phrase we hear everywhere now:

“I’m speaking my truth.”

It sounds empowering.
It sounds courageous.
It feels like liberation.

But if you listen closely, what most people call truth is not Truth at all —
it is a story.

A meaning.
A memory.
A wound.
A perspective.
A feeling.
A reaction.
A pattern.
A survival strategy dressed in spiritual language.

Nothing wrong with any of this.
It is profoundly human.

But it is not Truth.

I learned this distinction early in my ontological work, long before coaching was an industry:

Truth is like gravity — impersonal, unchanging, unarguable.
Identity is personal — constructed, conditioned, adaptive.

Most people mistake the second for the first.

When someone says,
“This is my truth,”
what they often mean is:

“This is the meaning I made based on the Identity I developed to survive.”

But Truth — with a capital T — lives at the level of Being, not Identity.

Truth is what remains when the narrative dissolves.
Truth is the experience of the Self without filter or protection.
Truth is the knowing that arrives before language tries to name it.

Truth is felt, not defended.
Recognized, not argued.
Lived, not declared.

When you are being true to who you are, there is no need to convince.
No need to be right.
No need to be louder.

Truth doesn’t raise its voice.
It deepens the room.

And here is where the distinction between Identity and the Self becomes essential:

The Identity has truths.
The Self acknowledges Truth.

The Identity says:
“This is my truth.”
(meaning, emotion, interpretation)

The Self says:
“This is what is true for me.”
(alignment, coherence, Being)

The Identity needs validation.
The Self needs only expression.

The Identity fights for its narrative.
The Self rests in its knowing.

The Identity protects itself.
The Self reveals itself.

And if you are a woman standing at the threshold of reinvention, this distinction matters more than anything.

Because a reinvention built on identity-truths will always require effort —
you must maintain it, protect it, prove it, keep it alive.

But a reinvention built from being true to who you are — as the Self — requires no maintenance at all.
It is the most natural thing in the world.

When I guide women across thresholds, this is the moment that changes everything:

The moment she stops trying to speak her truth
and starts being true to who she really is.

The moment Identity loosens
and the Self steps forward.

The moment her frequency shifts
from effort to ease,
from story to clarity,
from past to Presence.

This is the moment she stops trying to align her life
and starts aligning with Truth.

What is true for you — beneath meaning, beneath narrative —
is the beginning of every threshold you will ever cross.

It is the doorway.
It is the compass.
It is the future already vibrating in your bones.

Not “my truth.”
Not “your truth.”

Truth.
The Truth of Being.

And when you return to it —
your life, your leadership, your voice, your purpose
all reorganize themselves around it.

Welcome back.
With love and presence,
🌹 Gitanjali

Leadership & Transformation Coach | Human Design Guide
Founder of Vision. Power. Presence.

If this spoke to you, share it with someone standing at their own threshold.
I write about leadership, identity, and Human Design — where transformation becomes art and reinvention becomes remembrance.

Image Credit: Gitanjali Koppikar, Salt Flats, 2024