What, Who and When is YOUR Anagnorisis?

Anagnorisis: “The point in a play, novel, etc., in which a principal character recognizes or discovers another character’s true identity or the true nature of their own circumstances.”

What, Who and When is YOUR Anagnorisis?

Let’s talk about personal epiphanies. Imagine (and we all do, don’t we?) that your life IS a novel, play, film, etc.: What, Who and When is YOUR Anagnorisis?

Don’t know? Never considered this?
Know, but haven’t yet shared?

We are the protagonists of our own stories, so consider your real-life anagnorisis/es:
A) insight in a story’s plot in which a key character shifts from ignorance to awareness, and/or
B) making a critical realization, leading to a dramatic turn in the plot.

Sally Ember, EdD, author’s excerpt reading, from This Changes Everything, Volume I of The Spanners Series, bookstore (now closed), Newark, California, 2013.

—Could you detail your most significant moments of self-awareness/insightful knowledge?
—Did psychotherapy lead you to recognize your most damaging/challenging life patterns and your responsibility to change them
—How have meditation, yoga, prayer, martial arts, Continuum, massage, Polarity, Reiki, Feldenkrais, body work of other kinds, and/or other spiritual/religious practices and experiences led to profound understandings about your self and your life?

Here is a lengthy and very informative post that leads you to develop insight, understand and utilize what your learn to alter your own behavior patterns: https://mantracare.org/therapy/self-care/patterns-behavior/ “Patterns Behavior: Signs And Steps.”

OR: Consider the times that someone “fooled” you: they “showed their true colors” MORE THAN ONCE, but you failed to act on the first demonstration. When we’re HONEST with ourselves, we can review our interactions with that person and recognize that we saw but ignored the signs for far too long.
We may have had “good reasons” for downplaying these flaws or temporarily decided that “the good outweighed the bad. That means that we allowed ourselves to be swayed by other emotions, priorities, desires, and/or needs, overriding the appropriate responses to the “red flags” that we did see.
We HAD A CHOICE and chose incorrectly.
THIS insight allows us to stop feeling so “betrayed” and end viewing ourselves as “the victim.”
Then, we can take responsibility for our choices and choose different paths in the future.
Read this and view this image, below, for more help: https://www.choosingtherapy.com/victim-mentality/

—When/How did the person(s) you care about FIRST “show you who they are,” and
—How long did it take/what had to happen for you (finally) to acknowledge that some of who they were/are with you was/is unacceptable to you, AND
—What did/does it require for you to begin to take appropriate action?

A helpful video to watch if you’re just beginning these analytical journeys about someone in your life’s “true colors”: Jenniffer Weigel explains, briefly.
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If any of these experiences has occurred for you, what would you share, here (in the comments) about them? I’ll show you mine if you show me yours….

If you have not yet had a flash of your life’s anagnorisis/es, perhaps you could go on a search for that….How would you begin?

What kinds of support and encouragement did/do you need to handle these points of intensity?

What can you offer in the way of support or tips for others facing them right now?