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Who Do You Think You Are? I Am That I Am

Jan 12, 2026

Someone asked my client a while back, "Who do you think you are?!?!"

It was another woman asking the question: She said: "Who do you think you are? And questioned many of my clients life choices and decisions. She was referring to this clients now more true (for her) life, where she is living out loud, Being with her full spectrum of emotions, a life where she is allowing her desires, she is allowing her humanity, AND her soul to shine in her soul's way. She is taking up space in her own life and less shy about it. She called my client Self Centered, and questioned her values, choices, and validity of her desires.

My client told me, "Rivky, I froze for a moment, but then remembered who I am and I smiled, looked at her with love, respect, and true care in my heart and said:

"I am a child of God, and So are you. And most of all... I am. I am that I am"

She repeated:

"I am that I am... and that's who I am.

And So are you."

The conversation faded out.

But the story is not over.

The other woman called her a few weeks later and said: I hear the words "I am that I am, I am a child of God, in my head since we met at that wedding"

She said: "Thank you for your bravery and confidence and staying in your Self in the face of my triggered, activated, projection onto you...

I projected my self judgment, and my own limited perception of myself and what is possible onto you.

Thank you for holding your own, because of that, I now I see who I am too."

My client smiled and said jokingly (and kindly)

"Can I ask YOU, who do YOU think you are, my friend?" ;)

And the other woman said "I now know and feel I am a child of God, I am that I am, and now that I see it in me, I see it in you. Thank you for Being you."

The End

People all over the world fear to be in their full, complex, layered, beautiful, authentic expression.

For many women, the fear of shining too bright meant/means a loss of a certain kind of love, belonging, or connection.

When someone does their souls thing, in their souls way, how do you feel in your nervous system? How does it feel inside of you to do your souls thing in your souls way?

Who do you think you are?!?!?!

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