STRAWBERRY TIP - SEPTEMBER 8, 2026

CATEGORY - DECISION-MAKING

In the pages of Educated: A Memoir, author Tara Westover escorts readers into the complicated tensions between identity struggles ingrained by our upbringing and identity discovery invoked by an internal beckoning to challenge family, social and cultural frameworks in response to an inner need for Self’s fuller expression. On one occasion, she is stirred by a professor who in essence tells her, “First find out what you are capable of, then decide who you are.”  (p. 230, print version) 

Reflection/Call to Action

In ___________area(s) of my life I have been trying to live within framework(s) stifling my __________. Today I move forward to find out what I am capable of and to celebrate on the other side the new Self that I become.