It’s Not Who You Are, It’s Where You Are | Meditation to Let Go of Old Labels

October 9, 2026

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In the guided meditation “It’s Not Who You Are, It’s Where You Are,” host Wendy Jones opens with a confession: the sentence that makes her cheeks flush and ears burn is “It’s just who I am.” Over the years, she writes, she was handed—and handed herself—labels like “shy,” “oversensitive,” “unfocused,” and, at her lowest, “not cut out for this.” She carried some for decades as if they were facts. What she finally understood is that each one described a place she was standing at a certain time in her life. And places can be left. The meditation is a gentle practice for walking away from an old label, with gratitude for what it taught you and room for who you’re becoming.

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2 (01:32) **Welcome & Episode Purpose** - Wendy introduces the meditation and its origin from her blog, The Optimist Journal
3 (02:02) **The Confession That Sparks the Practice** - Wendy reveals the one sentence that makes her uncomfortable: "It's just who I am"
4 (03:06) **Core Insight: Places Can Be Left** - The central argument that labels are locations, not identities
5 (03:58) **Beginning the Meditation: Settling In** - Instructions for finding a comfortable position and starting to breathe
6 (05:39) **Arriving as You Are** - Permission to show up exactly as you are, without needing to change
7 (06:28) **Identifying Your Label** - The exercise of bringing to mind a self-defining sentence

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Guests on this episode

Wendy Jones

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