One Apple A Day #463 - Honest conversations
I began journaling years ago. It's one of the morning rituals that help me reconnect with myself. Over the year I've adapted my journaling to my changes, but one thing never changed; I never read what I write. Never. Once my thoughts and feelings are out of my mind and heart, black ink on white paper, they are gone. I don't read what I write in my journal because I soon realized how hard it can be to have an honest conversation with myself. Every transformation starts with an honest conversation. One in which we acknowledge that we want to change something and we bring it out in the light. I always knew that these kinds of conversations with others are difficult. There is the fear of the judgment, of the pain that we can feel or cause, of the unknown that can emerge. But it was only when I started journaling that I realized how hard it can be to have an honest conversation with myself. I never thought that I could be so good avoiding the truth when talking with myself. I could lie to myself even when I know, obviously, that I am lying.
Yet, no transformation can start without an honest conversation with myself. My never-read-it-again journaling ritual is a safe space where I can have a frank dialogue with me.
Do you have a safe space where you can talk honestly with yourself?