When was your epiphany, and did you change?

Too many to count, too many to remember. I’ve definitely had one close to leaving my husband when I realized that he actually liked how weak I was due to my postpartum depression because he finally felt functional.

Yes, it was the day (in my early 20’s) that I realized that this was not the only life we have led (I won’t say how, but it was a profound awakening) and that time is not necessarily linear. What I discovered went against every dogma that I had been taught by my childhood religion. It made me realize (eventually) that I did not need an “intermediary” between me and God because we are not separate. It turned my world on its end and sent me on a quest to find answers. I was never the same again. I’m still questing, questioning and sometimes finding the sacred, sometimes the profane. It led me to study with teachers all over the world to simply learn that resting in the “unknowing” is okay, too. When my world opened up so long ago, I never would have believed the amazing journey that it has led me to undergo. It has been a painful and wild ride but well worth it.

Very recently and am having very productive days here at work and at home because of it! It’s amazing what you can get done when you no longer have to wade through BS all day long!

Most recently I decided to cut myself some slack.
I don’t know why it is, but I’ve always been a pretty extreme over-achiever. Part of it had to do with the fact that my life goal, which I held as more important than most anything else in my life (again, I don’t know why), was to design rovers for NASA, and obviously NASA doesn’t hire just anyone.
Throughout high school I wasn’t satisfied with a grade lower than a 97 and I would regularly do homework from the moment I got home from school till 9 at night. I ended up graduating valedictorian.
It’s not so bad until you take into account that I was struggling with a disease made worse by stress, and while I would say that my health was more important, I could not force myself to actually take action and make concessions on my schoolwork. I continued the same habits.
Recently I’ve realized just now many non-goal related, non-work related things are important to me, and that I don’t want to give those things up in the future because I’m too busy working, as I have done in the past. I realized that my happiness in my adult life is going to be based on a hell of a lot more than my job, and that what I’ve been doing isn’t worth it. There are many easier to achieve careers that will bring me satisfaction and exercise my brain, and also leave me time to do other meaningful activities.
It’s hard to say if I’ve beaten the attitude for sure until I go back to school and see some real changes in my habits. But, I think I’ve made a big step and I’m going to be a lot nicer to myself from now on.

I had only one. I forgot the exact date. It was life changing though most people around say I’m up to no good since then.

Not really. Everything always seems so goddamn gradual with me, to the point that it goes by unnoticed, until much later.

I have had several and they have led to me making life-changing decisions. None of which I have regretted.

I’ve had a good number—my most recent one was “Oh. I CAN be nice and not be a wimp.” Duh. haha!

I do a lot of self-work, so most of my epiphanies have led to a life change, yes.