The Journey of Awakening My Authenticity
- lingyan zhang
- Aug 18
- 2 min read

This year, I created a brand born from within: The Magnet Space.
I’m also living out the brand’s slogan: Radiating from Within.
Everyone walks their own Journey. Unlike many navigating between family and career, I stepped away from the workplace 12 years ago and left traditional family life behind three years ago. As my story reveals, some souls aren’t meant to thrive in corporate roles or conventional family structures—they only drown my creativity and my IDENTITY.
This Journey has mostly been a solo quest: conversing with myself, playing a single-player game of self-discovery. After exploring the world, diverse ways of living, and countless lifestyles, I now surrender fully—letting myself be myself.
This year, I found spiritual faith. I uncovered my soul’s essence (continuing the legacy of my past life as an actress). I discovered my true self in relationships—not only becoming my own soul’s closest friend but also gaining two soul-sisters and a brother bound by life and death. They are my family.
Though often alone, my heart feels profoundly abundant. Rarely lonely, I’m anchored by spiritual belonging, inner peace, creative passion, and deep bonds with comrades and companions.
From age 35 to now—through marriage, motherhood, and the inner revolution of womanhood—my deepest insights into life have centered on understanding what it means to be a woman, both biologically and socially.
To grow stronger as a woman, yet never lose touch with the feminine—even nurturing it into greater softness, resilience, and power.
What kind of family do you need? You need those who look you in the eye and say: “I’m so proud of you!”You need those who carry you with unwavering grace when you’re broken, fragile, helpless, or on the verge of tears. “厚德载你”—ponder these words deeply.
Womanhood isn’t about hardening into a “heroine”—that’s another trap of self-obsession. Nor is it about seeking attention. It’s about revealing your inner strength, surrendering to your truth—the truth only you own! While tenderly nurturing your feminine essence, becoming ever more womanly: that unique energy, soft yet mighty enough to carry worlds.
May all women on this earth live as their truest selves. As women, you hold greater power than men to awaken your authenticity!
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