13. Taking Inventory: How I Stopped Playing the Victim Role

This one's a shortie but still powerful AF.

This week I ran our first Rewriter's Collective meetup of the month, and it sparked something I couldn't not talk about: taking a story inventory.

If you've been around here for a minute, you know Rewritten is all about tracing your old stories back to where they started, reframing them, and rewriting them into something that actually reflects who you are. 

But the heavy lift isn't the awakening. It's the embodying. It's practicing the new story on repeat until it becomes who you are.

In this episode, I'm breaking down:

• What a "story inventory" actually is (and how I stole the concept straight from Al-Anon's Step Four)
• Why "keeping your side of the street clean" might be the most freeing mindset shift you adopt this year
• The daily inventory questions I ask myself — did I tell any lies today, did I say yes when I meant no, am I avoiding a conversation I know I need to have
• Why forgiveness journals deserve just as much real estate as gratitude journals
• The moment I stopped victimizing myself over my relationship with my mom, and what changed when I finally saw her as a human being who was struggling — not just "my mother who should have been ___"
• What I'm actually most proud of (and it’s not what you think)

This episode is a reminder that you can't control other people. You never could. 

But you can take radical ownership of your side of the street, and that ownership is where your power lives.

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About me: I help female founders and ambitious women rewrite the stories that are keeping them stuck in outdated identities.