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title: "Belonging"
url: "https://emilyaarons.com/belonging/"
post_type: "post"
date_published: "2018-04-20T14:44:44-04:00"
date_modified: "2018-08-01T19:35:01-04:00"
categories: ["Blog"]
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# Belonging

Most of my life I’ve felt a little bit like an outcast, or just like I don’t quite fit in.
It was really exaggerated when I was 12 and moved cross country from Palo Alto, CA to Danvers, MA with my dad and brother.
I was not only going through puberty and feeling awkward in my own skin, but I moved to a new environment with people who dressed differently, talked differently, and certainly treated me like I didn’t belong.
Moving to a small town where all the kids knew each other since early childhood, it only made me stand out more. I felt myself crawling into my shell. I really didn’t feel comfortable to come “out’ until after high school when I went to massage school.
All throughout my 20’s I felt like I was searching for my special purpose. I wanted to know who I really was and why I was even here.
I’d always been drawn to healing work. In kindergarten I said I wanted to be a doctor when I grew up so I could help people! However, doing healing work in my 20’s, running my own wellness center eventually