Some years back I realized I have an alter ego, another person in me. Not that I have multiple personalities!
Her name is [name_f]Polly[/name_f]. She is young, cheery, brisk, adventuresome, frisky, lively, all those great things. She has many interests and hobbies and adventures. There is no drama in her life. 
When I feel everything she is not (adult, depressed, anxious, tired, etc.), I channel [name_f]Polly[/name_f]. And not like woo-hoo channeling on a spirit plane, just summoning up her cheeriness.
Once when I didn’t feel up to writing my holiday letter, [name_f]Polly[/name_f] wrote it (again, speaking metaphorically). When my husband read it, he said, “Wow, that’s a chipper tone!”
Anyway, I find her useful and comforting, a bit like the old advice of “Act as if” and in my case acting as if I were [name_f]Polly[/name_f].
Wondering if anyone else out there feels she (or he) has an alter ego too, another name/type of person who is within?
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