Confronting the Inner Battle: The Courage to Speak Your Truth and Reclaim Your Power

I’m not implying that it’s painless…because it isn’t. Real conversations are tough. They call for true courage and a commitment to speaking your truth. So often we give away our power by swallowing our words for the sake of keeping the peace or because we are afraid of rejection, of not fitting in, being abandoned or of not being loved. Avoiding conflict to keep the peace, we start a war inside ourselves. And the turmoil of unaddressed emotion fuels relentless cycles of thoughts. We’ve all been there.

Speaking our truth is also about recognising that there is no objective ‘truth’. We cannot convince someone of ‘the’ truth, we can only speak our own. But first we need to know just what our truth is. Our real truth is oftentimes buried beneath all the expectations and collective beliefs of society, our family, our ancestry and our own. It takes real commitment to dig down into the trenches and start undoing these knots. We may find that resentment, fear, pain, hurt, blame or shame veil or obstruct our truth. Or they might be intricately wound into and around our truth.

We need to be prepared to acknowledge and feel our fear or shame as it arises. Waves of sudden emotion are clues you are on the right track. Feeling like your world may collapse if you speak your truth usually means you’re very close. And often, it is only when the pain of not saying something outweighs the pain of speaking, do we find the strength to use our voice.

If we can face the darkest parts of ourselves with courage, loving acceptance and surrender, we can bridge these gaping chasms within. Confront the dragon, get the gold. The dragon is our own. The gold is our freedom. The lost soul part is returned. You take your power back and become more and more you. Right now the world needs healing warriors. Real talk, or no talk at all.