Who are you at your core?
- Brittany Janay
- Jun 25, 2025
- 2 min read
Who are you at your core?
I was asked this question as part of my journey to becoming a healing-centered coach.
The question felt familiar, yet distinct. I’ve always had a sense of what keeps me grounded and in alignment: my values, my spirituality, my gifts. But this question felt different. It felt like an invitation to go deeper.
Who are you at your core?
When I hear the word “core,” I think of what is essential, central, innermost.I imagine the nucleus: life’s control center.I think of the body: how the core stabilizes, anchors, and provides the foundation for movement and balance.
Who are you at your core?
During that coaching session, I was invited to get still. To pause. To breathe. To get in my body and allow the words to rise from within. With time, space, and presence… one word emerged: Wonder.
That’s who I am at my core. I am wonder.
Over the past few months, I’ve come to remember what that means:
Wonder is the balance of faith, creativity, critical self-reflection, and possibility. Back in January (wow), I recorded a video reflecting on this knowing. I intended to share it then, but I’m returning to it now.
This soul awareness has been a powerful anchor in this season. It has given me:
The clarity to say yes to work that aligns.
The confidence and agility to evolve my business.
The sense of FULLfillment when I might otherwise feel overwhelmed..
When I look back on the past two months (I missed y’all in May!), I experience gratitude for how I’ve had space to BE Wonder:
Facilitating at Santee & Redwood's PAUSE: The Retreat and inviting women of color to reflect on who they’re from and their stories around lineage.
Activating the Lineage & Legacy Recording Experience, specifically creating space for Black women to share and record stories on maternal lineage. Most powerful was having my mother and grandmother participate in this experience.
Expanding my offerings to include Fractional People, Culture, and Equity Support and partnering with the Maryland Food Bank in this work.
Starting Blended in BLOOM, a small group at my church for wives in blended families and single, co-parenting women
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I wonder… Who are you at your core?
And how might that inner knowing support you—for a time such as this?
Leadership as a L.O.V.E. Practice
Principle: Values Embodied
Living into your values requires knowing what is true at your core.So many leaders skip this step—rushing to define strategy, goals, or even culture without rooting in soul-level clarity. Alignment begins with embodiment.
When we know ourselves, we can lead with less striving and more stability.When we name our core, we can return to it when things get noisy or uncertain.
This month, consider the values that flow from your core.
Invite them to guide your boundaries, your presence in meetings, your vision for what’s possible.
Embodied leadership doesn’t start with doing. It starts with being.
Liberated Love Notes
I lead and act from a place of clarity not confusion.
I choose alignment and intention over urgency and activity.
I am deeply rooted and grounded in my values.
I experience this knowing as a gift.
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