Speak Your Truth: The Sunday Times top ten bestseller

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While many of us lean on mindfulness to help us through times of inner and outer chaos, we can cultivate the greatest resilience through consistency in our practice, even when it doesn’t feel urgent. Thousands of times each day, it (or your fingers on a keyboard: same thing) offers the good word or the bad one out into your world. In the state of doing, our subconscious can lead freely with old beliefs and programs that might not even be ours to begin with. When we hold back from saying what we really want to say to another person, we let them take our energy and the relationship can begin to feel heavy and resentful. You may be teetering on the edge of proffering your hard truth and then covering it up with a beautiful lie because someone may be hurt.

I love helping people, it’s what I do and in the past I was always the friend to do everything for everyone, but learning the art of speaking the truth has helped me set manageable boundaries and has allowed me to ascertain who I want to spend time with in my life and which relationships perhaps aren’t going to serve me. If we think before we speak and if we step back and give our words space to resonate, we create the safe space for others to be with us and open up more.More Clarity - When you cut out all the noise and “should’s and shouldn’ts” you’ll finally hear your Soul speak. Anyhow, in the past, when friends made reference to such icons in conversation, I often feigned familiarity to help the conversation flow more easily. But by “I don’t care,” what I really meant was: “I really want a burrito, but what matters more to me is that you’re happy with where we get dinner.

Tune inward + heal: Ask yourself, “If other people’s feelings were not involved, what would I say or do?And when their response is yes since everyone respects someone who isn’t afraid to tell the truth, I reply and ask them if they have considered looking at the situation in a different way because it doesn’t seem what they are currently doing is working for them. The cycle repeated itself in how they raised you, and in how they expected you to keep certain parts of yourself invisible.

Your partner will appreciate honesty in the worst of times, making the path to resolve easier to see and walk together. These situations can lead to other feelings, such as lack of fulfillment, and not feeling seen or valued. I couldn’t get on the radio and say, ‘Ugh, I’ve been up since 3am and milk is leaking from my boobs.Oprah Winfrey has made a career out of compassionate listening; indeed, encouraging a guest to deliver “your truth” is her trademark.