All We Need Is Love (Sweet Love)*

Singalong Optional, But Highly Encouraged.

Singalong Optional, But Highly Encouraged.

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I’ve been reflecting on my recent post about finding the courage to be yourself.

I want to acknowledge what a complex and personal topic it is for many if not all of us.

And I want to unpick it a little, as much as anyone ever can in a LinkedIn article, because it feels important to be real about the struggles we face, too.

Things may be ‘simple’ at some level, but they don’t necessarily seem or feel that way. And in my opinion, that’s as meaningful, if not more so.

After all, the only way out is through.

I want to talk more about how and why we come to be afraid of being ourselves — assuming, of course, that we have some conception (however tentative, variable and exploratory) of what that might mean.

At an overarching level, we all have a story. Multiple stories, even. And the story/ies that we tell ourselves matter.

Who do you think you are?

What do you, at your core, believe yourself to be?

I suspect that we have all,…