There's an Art to Truth Telling

I have to walk away from my computer a lot. If you email me in response to this post, you might not hear from me for a week, though I will usually always reply. Sometimes I'm in straight "output" mode on social media and I don't actually read or look at anything anyone posts or says in reply to me. I do this because I have to. Clients often express that they want to be more open and truthful in their work or relationships. They want to share like I do. They want to put it all out there, but they're afraid. They want to know how they can be less afraid like me. And I laugh, because I'm still so very afraid. Which is why I have to walk away from my computer. And why I won't open responses to emails for up to a week. There are many times I send out a post on Facebook and I immediately wish I hadn't. I wish I hadn't shared that truth. I wish I hadn't spoken the words that tumbled out from deep inside my soul. I wish people weren't paying attention. I wish I could just disappear. I wish my work didn't require such transparency. I'm learning that I'm doing it right if I wish I hadn't. The blog posts that keep me up all night, tossing and turning and wondering if I should hit cancel and write something different or rephrase that one part that will make someone mad. The ones that, when I sleep past 6am, have me wake up with a drop in my stomach and an, "oh gawd, that email went out." The ones where I will see your responses come in, and I will just mark them as read, making a n...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news