01/04/2023
Do you feel bad or guilty for voicing your Truth?
Stepping into personal power involves communicating difficult truths that may contrast what people are used to from you.
What often comes up is a sense of guilt for doing so.
Guilt that says - “Doing this is bad,” or “I shouldn’t be doing/saying/thinking/wanting this.”
When this happens I am presented with two choices:
1. Hold back my truth and stay small, putting others’ comfort and happiness before my own OR
2. Stay rooted in what is true for ME and therefore remaining authentic to myself no matter the outcome.
If I am truly committed to breakthroughs for myself, I have to be willing to go where I have never been. Especially in how I relate to others.
Even if it means ruffling up some feathers, and saying No when they’re used to my Yes.
People in my life, and even parts of me, who have been benefiting from my smallness, are likely going to feel it the most - they may even protest it.
Threatening to leave, cut me out, or even tell me I’m in danger.
Listen, my smallness ENABLED actions and behaviors in myself AND others that were unsupportive of me and the process of my growth and expansion.
The danger in staying small is never blooming or blossoming. Never coming to full term and never experiencing the depths of freedom in authenticity. Never knowing serenity in living in my own skin. Always waiting, but never becoming.
My bigness, however, as scary as it may be initially, becomes a gift.
When I am so rooted in my authentic truth and essence, come what may, come chaos and raging storms, I am always the one that remains when the dust settles and mist clears.
It is a gift that invites others into their own bigness too.
Ponder.
I love you ❤️
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