Return to site

You’ve Been Lied to About Purpose


Let’s be honest.

Most of us have been sold a lie about purpose. We’ve been told it’s a product, a business, a thing we have to create or chase. Something impressive. Something that makes us money, puts our name on a stage, or gets us a TED Talk.

And if it’s not that? Then surely it must be a mission to save the world, heal all the wounded, fix the education system, or rescue the planet.

But what if I told you that’s just your wounded ego talking?

What if the desire to build something “big enough” is actually an unconscious attempt to prove you’re worthy of existing?

I had to learn the hard way — chasing outcomes, chasing dreams, chasing validation. Until I realized:

Purpose isn’t found in the chase.

It’s not a prize at the end of your burnout.

It’s not in the approval of others.

It’s not even in the success of the mission.

Purpose is presence.

It’s coming home to yourself.

It’s the radical, uncomfortable, soul-cracking realization that:

✨ You were already enough.

✨ You were already worthy.

✨ You didn’t have to do more to prove it.

But your nervous system didn’t know that yet.

Because the trauma, the conditioning, the need to survive — it kept you chasing.

So here’s the truth most people won’t tell you:

Purpose is nervous system regulation.

Purpose is restoring coherence in your body so that you’re no longer addicted to proving, fixing, or saving.

Purpose is your original frequency — the energy of wholeness that makes you magnetic to the life you’ve been trying to build your way into.

You don’t have to build it.

You have to become it.

And from there, your life — your actual purpose — unfolds.

Not because you hustled for it.

But because you finally remembered who you were before the world told you otherwise.