Let Yourself Be Who You Are

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Journey To The Heart

Let Yourself Be Who You Are

It’s difficult to be around people who are trying to be perfect– perfectly healthy , perfectly polite, perfectly poised, perfectly controlled.

Remember that being human means being imperfect, being flawed. Let yourself be. Let others be. Slouch in your chair. Eat with the wrong fork. Laugh out loud. Stand up and reveal who you are and know that you’re good enough.

Stop worrying that people will find out who you really are. Instead, hope that they do. Help them by openly sharing yourself and being not who you think you should be, but who you really are.

Freedom is just a small step away– a step into self-love and acceptance. When you take it, others will follow. And they’ll be grateful you led the way.

 A woman met me at a conference and said, "You look fabulous, what did you do with yourself to look so good."  I said, "I lost the fear of putting the wrong foot forward and saying the wrong thing."  She said, "How did you do that?"  I worked the program.

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Ms. Perfection often came out in recovery. As a friend in New Zealand said, "Ms Perfection and Ms. Isolation are not recovery tools. They are part of your dis-ease. It goes back to my mother's old tape, "If you can't do it right, don't do it at all. Right was my mother's way. So I often did it over and over trying to get it right or didn't do it at all because I didn't agree with her way, or I just couldn't put the energy into something I figured I couldn't do.