What Are You Really Here For? A self-discovery journey
- Paulina Alanis
- May 21
- 2 min read
There comes a moment — sometimes soft like a whisper, sometimes loud like a storm — when the way we’ve been living no longer fits.
It might sneak in as restlessness. Or arrive as a quiet numbness, a low-grade disconnection from the things that once brought joy. Maybe it shows up as an ache you can’t quite name. Or as a fierce, undeniable clarity: something deeper is calling. That moment isn’t a problem to solve. It’s an invitation.

An invitation back to your yes. To your truth. To your purpose — not as a job title or a five-year plan, but as a way of being that feels undeniably like you.
We live in a world that trains us to fit in, to strive, to accumulate gold stars. And somewhere along the way, many of us forget how to listen inwardly. We forget how to be ourselves — not the curated version, not the “productive” one — but the real, living pulse of who we are.
I believe we’re here to experience the fullness of that pulse. To return to presence. To meet the silence within. To reconnect with the wisdom of the body and the natural world. To remember why we’re here — not just for ourselves, but in service to something larger.
But before we can offer that presence to the world, we have to come home to it in ourselves.That’s the real work.
It’s the work of unlearning:
The roles we’ve played to feel accepted.
The beliefs that once kept us safe but now keep us small.
The ways we’ve disconnected from our intuition just to survive.
This process isn’t always graceful. It’s not linear. But it is liberating.
What are you really here for?
Not what the world told you. Not what your younger self clung to in order to feel worthy. But the real thing.
What does the deep pulse in your heart tell you?
That’s the conversation worth having.
That’s the path worth following. And that moment — whether it comes quietly or crashes like thunder — is the beginning.
Try this self-discovery worksheet that I created to help you explore this question with honesty and heart.
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