Thread by @verymessyjamie

Hi, I’m Jamie. I’m a #PhD graduate

But I’m also…
a former education journalist
a former magazine writer
a life coach
a tarot reader
a daughter
a girlfriend
a friend
a public-speaking award-winner
a spiritual practitioner
a weight-lifter
....
....
#phdlife #phdchat 1/

Every single one of those ‘identities’ carries its own weird quirks, interesting characteristics, insecurities +anxieties, skills +capacities, fun, worries, likes+dislikes.

But also, each of those parts of me are entwined with all the other parts...

2/

I was never *just* an academic

I was a PhD student who also had lots of writing experience as a journalist; whose spiritual, witchy side always nudged her to trust her own research intuition; who used her yoga practice as valuable reflections on her researcher positionality

3/

So, who are YOU in YOUR PhD?
Own all the many multi-faceted, layered, complex, fun, seemingly incongruent parts of you
It'll make your research so much more textured, richer, colourful + interesting too.

n/n