If you are an acorn, you can only become an oak tree.

One of my highlights this year was diving even deeper into Carl Jung’s work. One of Jung’s key concepts is individuation. It is the life-long process of becoming our own unique self, distinct from others.

What’s different and especially beautiful about the idea of individuation is that it is very different from the popular idea of “You can be anything you want to be.”

Although being anything we want to be is a positive idea on one level, it neglects the fact that we can REALLY only...