Finding Our Own Language
The journey back to authenticity beneath all the noise.
Sometimes life sends us invitations that at first seem ordinary — a plan, a ticket, a casual gift. But if we listen closely, they often carry a quiet message meant just for us.
A dear friend of mine here in London — someone I treasure deeply — surprised me with a ticket to see Priscilla Presley at a talk titled “Life After Elvis.”
When I first received the invitation, I got caught up in the mundane details — how to get there, the timing, how to fit it into my schedule. But once that initial noise settled, I paused and asked myself: Why is this gift arriving in my life now?
As soon as I began reading about the event, I realised it wasn’t random at all — it was arriving for AUTHENTICA.
Behind Closed Doors
The talk was about the hidden side of Priscilla’s life — the world behind closed doors where she had little room to explore her own identity.
She married Elvis Presley at twenty-one and lived surrounded by his presence, his fame, his legend. But in that world so many envied, she found herself fading.
At some point, she realised the only way to truly survive was to step away — to leave behind the life the world admired, and start the journey back to herself.
Strength, Purpose and a Life Beyond the Legend
In this intimate conversation, drawn from her memoir Softly As I Leave You, Priscilla reflected on what it took to survive, what she lost in the process, and what she finally found — strength, purpose, and a life beyond the legend.
As I listened, my mind drifted to AUTHENTICA.
Her story is one of reclaiming identity after being eclipsed by someone else’s story — something that so many of us experience, especially as we move through midlife.
There comes a time when the distractions lose their grip, and we begin to sense the quiet pull of our own voice, our own truth knocking at the door.
Priscilla shared that, after her separation from Elvis and later his passing, she had to reinvent herself completely.
At one point she said that she finally met herself — and asked, almost in awe, “Who do we have here?”
It struck me deeply.
Elvis once said to her when they first met, “Damn, you are good looking.”
And yes — sometimes life begins with how others see us, with the image reflected back to us. But deep inside, we are so much more.
Midlife and the Call of Authenticity
Midlife has this way of stripping away the noise, the layers of who we’ve been told we are, revealing what’s been quietly waiting underneath.
The search for authenticity becomes less of a choice and more of a calling.
And as we start to listen, we begin to find what I like to call our Priscilla threads — the strands of strength, purpose and truth that weave us back to who we really are.
Finding Our Own Language
Priscilla also shared something beautiful: that between her and Elvis there was a kind of private language only they understood.
And I thought — isn’t that what authenticity is?
Finding our own language with ourselves.
Learning to hear it again, beneath all the noise, the expectations, the legends we’ve lived beside.
That is the essence of AUTHENTICA: to return to our own voice, to the quiet truth of who we’ve always been, waiting patiently behind the curtain of everything we thought we had to be.
If this resonates with you — if you’re in a moment of change, rediscovery or longing for something more real — AUTHENTICA is here to walk beside you.
Because the world doesn’t need another version of you — it needs the real one.
Stay tuned!
Emi x