{"id":270,"date":"2026-04-04T20:16:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icf-coaching.org\/sabinagavriloaiei\/2026\/04\/04\/authenticity-and-belonging\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T20:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:29:12","slug":"authenticity-and-belonging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icf-coaching.org\/sabinagavriloaiei\/2026\/04\/04\/authenticity-and-belonging\/","title":{"rendered":"Authenticity and Belonging"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0.5em;margin-bottom: 0.5em\">A long time ago, probably during school, I understood that I was inconvenient enough to be felt, but good enough to be needed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0.5em;margin-bottom: 0.5em\">It wasn&#8217;t a clear conclusion at the time. It was more of a feeling.<br \/>\nThat kind of subtle tension that occurs when you say what is on your mind and notice how the room becomes a little quieter.<br \/>\nWhen you ask a question that wasn&#8217;t on the list.<br \/>\nWhen you see things that others prefer to leave untouched.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0.5em;margin-bottom: 0.5em\">So sometimes we feel like we have to choose between authenticity and belonging.<br \/>\nOn the one hand, there is the deeply human desire to belong. To be accepted. To feel that we have a place in a group, a team, a family, or a community.<br \/>\nOn the other hand, there is authenticity. The inner voice that observes, asks questions, feels nuances, says \u201cthis doesn\u2019t fit\u201d or \u201cI think there\u2019s a better option.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0.5em;margin-bottom: 0.5em\">This choice is also clearly seen in recruitment processes.<br \/>\nWhether we are candidates or employers, we want authenticity, but we also evaluate how much we belong to that group.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0.5em;margin-bottom: 0.5em\">We claim to want people who bring new perspectives, but we often feel most comfortable with those who don\u2019t question the way we work.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0.5em;margin-bottom: 0.5em\">So when we have someone different from us in front of us, it can help to give them space and ask ourselves:<br \/>\n&#8211; What new perspective can this person bring to me?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago, probably during school, I understood that I was inconvenient enough to be felt, but good enough to be needed. It wasn&#8217;t a clear conclusion at the time. It was more of a feeling. That kind of subtle tension that occurs when you say what is on your mind and notice how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3065,"featured_media":272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icf-coaching.org\/sabinagavriloaiei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icf-coaching.org\/sabinagavriloaiei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icf-coaching.org\/sabinagavriloaiei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icf-coaching.org\/sabinagavriloaiei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3065"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icf-coaching.org\/sabinagavriloaiei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.icf-coaching.org\/sabinagavriloaiei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"https:\/\/www.icf-coaching.org\/sabinagavriloaiei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icf-coaching.org\/sabinagavriloaiei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icf-coaching.org\/sabinagavriloaiei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icf-coaching.org\/sabinagavriloaiei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icf-coaching.org\/sabinagavriloaiei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}