Do You Know Whose You Are? — Taking a Personal Inventory of Your Identity

Let’s talk about something most of us avoid until life forces our hand: taking personal inventory.

No, I’m not talking about cleaning out your closet or updating your resume. I mean an honest, deep, soul-level check-in.

• Who am I?

• What do I believe about myself?

• Where did these beliefs even come from?

For a lot of women I work with, there’s a quiet identity crisis simmering under the surface. They’re showing up in their lives, checking all the boxes, yet feeling disconnected—from their purpose, from themselves, from their important relationships, and more painfully… from God.

And here's the truth bomb: if you don’t know whose you are, you’ll keep chasing who you think you’re supposed to be.

Identity By Default or Identity By Design?

Many of us inherited our identity like hand-me-down clothes: beliefs shaped by family, teachers, culture, or even childhood trauma. And while those narratives may have once helped us survive, they are not meant to define us.

Somewhere along the way, we confused performance with worth, perfection with value, and approval with love.

We started believing lies like:

• * “I’m too much.”

• * “I’m not enough.”

• * “I have to prove I’m worthy.”

• * “God is disappointed in me.”

These thoughts didn’t just show up out of nowhere. They were planted. Repeated. Reinforced. And over time, they became the background music of your life.

But here’s the good news:

You get to rewrite the soundtrack.

So… What’s a Personal Inventory?

It’s a pause.

A moment of spiritual alignment.

A courageous step into truth-telling with yourself and with God.

Taking inventory means asking questions like:

• * What stories am I still living from my past?

• * What labels have I worn that God never gave me?

• * What would it look like to live from truth instead of fear, shame, or striving?

This isn’t about blame. It’s about awareness. When you know what’s running in the background, you can finally decide what stays and what gets deleted.

From Identity Crisis to Identity in Christ

When we don’t know whose we are, we live reactive lives. We grasp for affirmation, hustle for our worth, and settle for relationships, careers, or habits that numb the ache instead of heal it.

But when we know we belong to a God who:

• * Calls us chosen (1 Peter 2:9)

• * Sees us as beloved (Romans 9:25)

• * Redeems our past and rewrites our story (Isaiah 43:19)

…we begin to live from a grounded place of truth, not emotional chaos.

**Your identity is not up for grabs. It was secured on the cross.

The world may try to rename you, but God has already called you His.

A Faith-Based Invitation

So here’s your invitation, friend:

Take inventory—not just of your thoughts, but of your soul.

• * What are you believing about yourself that doesn’t align with who God says you are?

• * Where are you living in reaction instead of intention?

• * What do you need to release in order to reclaim your true identity?

When you know whose you are, everything changes. The lies lose their grip. The striving loses its urgency. And you start to live as someone already loved, already chosen, already enough.

Not because you earned it.

But because He said so.