I started blogging primarily to become more in touch with my own inner life. Writing takes me deeper inside, and putting my experience in words sharpens my vision. Choosing words also is also helping me to be more articulate when trying to explain what goes on inside of me, in my head and in my heart. Being open to myself has allowed me to be more open with others.
It didn’t take me long to realize that, by sharing this awareness, I was also inviting my friends and companions to be witnesses of my inner life. They are the truth-keepers, ones who see best who I really am. They are the ones best prepared to support me, to nudge me along, to nourish me.
This practice in transparency has spilled over in how I able to talk about my inner life. Not only am I aware better of what is going on and have words to describe it. I have little anxiety about who will see me as I really am. It supports my determination to be myself, not put up facades, not pretend to be more than I am. The practice has a tendency to make me more humble but still glad to be me.