"If you cannot tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people."
"If you cannot tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people." Virginia Woolf.
Do you tell the truth about yourself to yourself?
Maybe we all lie a little bit to other people? To save face, to avoid hurting their feelings, to escape judgement, to avoid intimacy, to be liked.
There are many reasons why we might lie to others.
But do you lie to yourself?
Do you tell the truth about yourself to yourself?
What does that even mean?
Can you be so sure of your inner dialogue - your judgements, your diatribe, the stories that have been passed down the family line and run in your veins for generations?
Where does your truth come from?
Your lived experience?
Your inner coach or your inner critic?
How you feel?
When you take off your blinkers, when you slide behind your learned beliefs , when you let the triggered emotions all drop - how do you access the truth about yourself?
How do you stop telling yourself fake news?
Yes I do I tell the truth to myself and others, that’s why I don’t really know what my substack writing is all about, it’s not fiction, it’s self therapy in a way I guess, rambling on with some stories about myself to try and help others who may be don’t believe they can do stuff. But if im honest then I can’t see why anyone reading would be as interested in me as I obviously am. The truth is they probably don’t care, I know I wouldn’t if I were them.