Courageously Speak Your Truth: I have written extensively on different ways to express yourself. Instead of repeating myself here, I encourage you to peruse my Communications category on my Blog where you will find a number of tools to support you. Two specific articles that may help are: 15 Ways to Say No and 15 Ways to Express Needs and Desires. Carelessly speaking your mind and telling your innermost feelings to unsafe people, is not the way. Speaking your truth requires that you: take 100% responsibility for your experience and let go of managing the experience of others.

Well, Garance Franke-Ruta replied, “sometimes you know something is real and happened and is wrong, even if the world says it’s just the way things are. It’s a call to activism rooted in the individual story, grounded in personal experience.”I believe in going deep, but love, don’t lose your levity. Here’s a little satire for those who wanna keep their self-help sassy.

There’s nothing more admirable than someone who’s real and authentic in a world where everything seems like one big facade because of social media. When you speak your truth, this is your version of the story and nobody else’s. You aren’t doing it to impress anyone, but you’re speaking up to be real and honest to yourself – and that’s an admirable trait. As with all exercises, you don’t run the 400 meter dash right out the of gates. You stretch; you jog a lap; you warm up. Pain and discomfort in the form of stress, overwhelm, anger and resentment are signals that you are living out of integrity. For instance, you may feel resentful for being the Go-to-Person again; for being the one who takes on the duties that others are quite capable of doing. Stress or overwhelm can be a sign that you are not saying “No”; that you are not asking for what you need, such as help with sharing responsibilities, or to leave work on time. Anger is often a sign that you are not listening to your intuition. You may agree to do something or take on someone else’s burden, but inside you feel a surge of anger that wants to scream “No!” Anger is simply your body’s response to you denying your truth.How do you feel about the palace hearing you speak your truth today?” Winfrey asked Markle. The actress-turned-duchess responded that she couldn’t remain silent about her life in the United Kingdom any more before recounting her difficulties. Everyone has memories of things we’ve done to others and things others have done to us, but until recently, we called them precisely that: our memories. By framing recollection as “my truth” though, one presents one’s own account—potentially biased or misremembered—as the official record. Here’s a short and simple throat chakra meditation from Mindvalley to help balance your 5th chakra and clear the way for direct but heartful communication. Les Crane did a spoken version of this. I used to hear it played on the radio in the early 70's, and it's available online here:

Rapidly diagnose which of your chakras are open or closed so you can identify which area of your life to focus your attention to most. He explained that he walked over to the woman and asked her to tre If you never learnt to have your thoughts and feelings valued in your developmental stages how are you to know they are valuable as a grown up? Cotton was a restless kid growing up in deep suburbia. Her family lived in Hillingdon, a few miles from west London, which she found dreary and dull. Dad was a signmaker, Mum did all sorts. At the local comprehensive, a careers adviser suggested she become a teacher. Cotton had other ideas.Thank you Vince for such an eye opening article. I’ve been in my mental cave all my life and I’m just now at 47 trying to get out of it. I think of authentic communication as sharing the unfiltered essence of ourselves with others, including our identities, feelings, needs, boundaries, and desires.

I worked up the courage to tell my mom how I felt, only to end up needing to comfort her for the way I was feeling.

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Growing Fearless: Mindfulness, Public Speaking and Performance Anxiety Once when I was at university, I had to do a presentation. Not a huge one, there were only about a handful of people in the room. But I choked. Literally. I felt so uncomfortable that the words would not actually come out of my mouth. I was mortified. Afterwards,...