self-exploration

American  

[self-ek-spler-ay-shuhn] / ˌsɛlfˌɛk splərˈeɪ ʃən /

noun

plural

self-explorations

1. the process of deepening one's self-understanding by considering and analyzing one's own feelings, beliefs, motivations, values, etc.

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Example Sentences

This desire for a farm is her latest self-exploration, clarifying for her that she loves her profession but not the superficial trappings that accompany it.

From Los Angeles Times

Maybe this self-described “enigma” was ready to fully commit to a post-football life of self-exploration with spiritual guides, gurus and whatever you want to call McAfee.

From The Wall Street Journal

They had gathered this Saturday morning on Abbot Kinney Blvd in the courtyard behind the Japanese skincare store Albion Garden to attend “Echoes of the Heart,” a two-hour cacao, breathwork and sound bath workshop that promised to guide participants toward “deep self-exploration, energetic healing and profound relaxation.”

From Los Angeles Times

They had gathered this Saturday morning on Abbot Kinney Boulevard in the courtyard behind the Japanese skincare store Albion Garden to attend Echoes of the Heart, a two-hour cacao, breathwork and sound bath workshop that promised to guide participants toward “deep self-exploration, energetic healing and profound relaxation.”

From Los Angeles Times

And I think it was really meaningful to develop an adult character that is invested in self-exploration in a way that could not only restore his own sense of self, which he hadn’t even realized he had lost, but then also do justice to a historical injustice and also kind of embody the values of the person who changed his life the most.

From Los Angeles Times