Own Your Truth: How To Express Your Needs When Every Part of You is Screaming [Not To]

Also known as ‘how to make a blog post as SEO-unfriendly as possible to ensure that no-one reads said [personal] expression’. #nuances

Also known as ‘how to make a blog post as SEO-unfriendly as possible to ensure that no-one reads said [personal] expression’. #nuances

… but anyway.

Things haven’t been easy.

Things haven’t been easy, because life isn’t easy. This is natural, normal, and even — dare I say it — ‘healthy’.

I am not in crisis; I can take care of myself; I am coping.

If I wasn’t, I would ask for help.

But, still, things haven’t been easy.

Like every other human being on this planet, I find it hard to be vulnerable.

Actually, that’s a lie. Let me rephrase:

Like every other human being on this planet, I find it hard to deal with being vulnerable.

I find it scary. I find it overwhelming. It threatens the stability of who and what I am — or present myself as. It threatens me.

Like every other human being on this planet, I am — or have the potential to be — my greatest asset and my biggest weakness.

As always, ‘it’s not what it is, but what it represents.’

Context is all.

Your, my, our vulnerability is not — and was never —…