Being and Becoming Your True Self

A Journey through Identity, Alter Egos, Symbols, and Self-growth

This book explores identity as the bridge between Being and Becoming through which essence within meets expression outside. Drawing on Western psychology, Indian philosophy, and over four decades of group facilitation, it offers conceptual clarity and practical pathways for facilitators, therapists, educators, leaders, and seekers.

What if the version of you the world sees isnt the real you?

This book explores identity as the bridge between Being and Becomingthe conduit through which essence within meets expression outside. Drawing on Western psychology (Rogers on congruence and group processes, Erikson on identity, Winnicott on the true self), Indian philosophy (Skhya, Upaniads, Yoga Stra), and over four decades of group facilitation, the author offers conceptual clarity and practical pathways for facilitators, therapists, educators, leaders and seekers.

Identity, a well-researched psychological construct, is shaped by memory, culture, and relationships, yet it is often distorted by childhood rules, cultural expectations, and the musts and shoulds of society. This book invites readers to move beyond inherited scripts towards volition-based choices and a more grounded, self-authored identitywhere Being and Becoming work in harmony. Through role-play, psychodrama, sensing, and reflective dialogue, readers learn to recognise masks, shadows, and inner voices, reclaiming the living essence of the true self.

This is not just a bookit is a guide for transformation. Essential reading for facilitators, therapists, educators, leaders, and seekers ready to reflect, realign and reconnect.