Author: Geraldine Crane

When Survival Becomes Identity How childhood roles quietly shape the way women lead, love and build businesses Identity is everything when running your own business, yet much of our identity is formed in childhood and quietly shapes the rest of our lives. At twelve years old, a huge part of my identity was being the “good daughter.” Despite my mother’s chaotic mental health and emotional outbursts, I adored her. She was the centre of my world. But she became very ill, and I became her carer. Feeling I could no longer be a child, I became the fixer, the responsible…