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The Business of Switching Identities

Can we change from the perception that other people perceive us to be? Can we switch from one inner identity to other?

Tessa Schlesinger
9 min readApr 28, 2023
Once upon a time, that was me. But who am I now? Own picture.

For the past year, I’ve been struggling with an identity crises. The me that once loved clothes, beauty, travel, music, and was a pretty adventurous sort, vanished some decades ago. She loved men (definitely preferred them to women), dated all the time, and was seldom without a smile. Positivity exuded from me, and there was no problem that could not be resolved.

She disappeared around about the time I went online in 1994, or, perhaps, it was when I first became involved in groups, and Americans began to down me. I do recall the first incident. It was harsh.

I was a member of writer/new age guru, Stuart Wilde’s website group. I had read all his books, and I disagreed with something he said. In one of his books he said that love could not come across the dark forces in the invisible realm. I disagreed with that because I had definitely used love to eradicate the terrible poltergeist activity in my life.

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