Speaking our truth is not easy.

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Mainly for one reason.

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But it's not the reason we think.

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For there is a lot of fear around speaking our truth.

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Not the fear of how it will be received, although that's part of it.

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Or the fear of what others will think of us, although that's a part of it.

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Even the fear of what speaking our truth will lead to is not it, although it is also a part of the whole challenge.

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It actually comes down to one simple aspect of speaking the truth that we usually miss.

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We sometimes feel we don't even know what our truth is, yet if we dig deep we actually do.

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The most challenging part of speaking our truth is admitting it to ourselves and hearing it ourselves.

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So much of the time it is us that we are hiding the truth from.

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Not anyone else.

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Admitting the truth of how we truly feel to ourselves is often the most difficult part of speaking our truth.

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Such as admitting our pain.

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Or our trauma.

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Even admitting to ourselves that we don't really feel how we've been telling everyone else we fell is tremendously challenging.

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For once we admit the truth to ourselves, then sharing it with others becomes easier.

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It can actually make sharing our truth lighter.

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We can then get past the fear with much less anxiety.

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Yet first, we must truly admit to ourselves, how we really feel deep inside where no one can see.

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Hiding the truth from ourselves is actually quite easy.

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We bury it under excuses and justifications, both for ourselves and for others, all the time.

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Digging deep, into the depths of our heart and our soul, is not easy.

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Truly being honest with ourselves can produce so much fear.

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Many people take that truth with them to their grave.

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Yet that ultimately does not serve us.

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It does not give us space to free our soul.

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Unburdening ourselves of our darkest truth is the only way to free us from our bondage.

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Not that we have to share it with anyone else.

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When we truly hear our own truth, often for the first time, then sharing with others is beyond the point.

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For we have found the freedom to admit to ourselves that which we have been so afraid to admit to ourselves.

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That is where our true liberation lies.

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Is there a deep, dark truth you have been afraid to admit to yourself?

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~ Sam Liebowitz, The Conscious Consultant

Host of The Conscious Consultant Hour