Letting go of your old self is not some cute glow-up. Itâs more like the butterfly process⌠but the part people donât talk about. The caterpillar doesnât just grow wings. It literally breaks down into nothing inside the cocoon. No structure, no identity, just a mess before anything new forms. Thatâs exactly what happens when youâre changing your self-concept. You get to a point where you donât feel like the old you anymore⌠but youâre not fully the new you either. And thatâs the uncomfortable part. Because your brain wants something familiar. So it tries to pull you back into old habits, old reactions, old thinking. Not because itâs right. Just because itâs known. But you canât go back to being the old version once youâve seen beyond it. So if you feel a bit off, like things donât fit the same, like youâre in between versions of yourself⌠Thatâs normal. Youâre not doing it wrong. Youâre just in the middle of the shift.