I have been involved in a lot of conversations lately about telling our story by standing in our truth around our struggles, failures and mistakes.
These narratives when left in our head, eat away at our worthiness and constantly run a program in the back of our minds that we either buy into or overcompensate for… or both.
Left unspoken and unhealed we inevitably build our lives around avoiding the story and that pattern to avoid the pain and shame that comes with repeating it again. That’s when the story owns us.
Do you have untold stories, narratives or beliefs about yourself that you have pushed down and away that you have vowed to never talk about ?
What would it take for you to tell that story?
What would it take to fully own your story of how you got to where you are now, even at the deepest level?
What if you could believe that by sharing with the right people in the right way that you would feel more loved, accepted and understood?
If you knew you could heal the pain you work to avoid and live a richer, fuller, more connected life, would you find someone to tell?
If you knew that sharing your story could help someone else with a similar story know they aren’t alone, would you tell?
When we tell our story, we own it. This sounds terrifying, but it is liberating.
When the story owns us it has the control. It keeps us imprisoned behind shame, guilt and grief.
But when we own our story. When we say this is who I am and why… then we take the power back and can release the shame, guilt and grief and the control they have over us.
This is liberating.
It’s not easy. But it’s worth it.