Speak Your Truth: The Sunday Times top ten bestseller

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You often feel unheard, like others are not loving you the way you need, or like your needs are not being met.

Family Mindfulness: 3 Ways I Share My Practice When people learn that I’m a mindfulness teacher, I’m often asked about how to use mindfulness with your kids. This is an interesting question for me as a parent. My professional training and experience is in teaching adults (I don’t teach kids’ classes), but I do share my own mindfulness...As a recovering people-pleaser, I spent much of my life believing it was my responsibility to facilitate, or ease the tension in, conversations. For many years, I feared “awkward silences” the way someone else might fear spiders or clowns. Carelessly speaking your mind and telling your innermost feelings to unsafe people, is not the way. Speaking your truth requires that you: take 100% responsibility for your experience and let go of managing the experience of others. Anyhow, in the past, when friends made reference to such icons in conversation, I often feigned familiarity to help the conversation flow more easily. These were totally inconsequential white lies, right?

For example, here’s Markle’s account of her surprise wedding three days before the ceremony watched by people around the world: “I was thinking about it [getting down to basics]—even at our wedding, you know, three days before our wedding, we got married.” Speaking this deeper truth will not only liberate us, but it has the potential to make a difference for others and bring us closer together with them. How Do We Enhance and Deepen Our Capacity to Speak Our Truth With Kindness, Love, and Authenticity? Do you find it hard to speak up for yourself? Are you afraid of what might happen if you say how you really feel?There’s nothing more admirable than someone who’s real and authentic in a world where everything seems like one big facade because of social media. When you speak your truth, this is your version of the story and nobody else’s. You aren’t doing it to impress anyone, but you’re speaking up to be real and honest to yourself – and that’s an admirable trait.

May I simply just say what a comfort to find somebody that genuinely knows what they are discussing on the internet.Make your way to any water cooler or happy hour and you’ll find plenty of folks complaining, comparing, and airing their grievances. But genuine expressions of hurt, discomfort, and sadness are far rarer. You denying your heart’s desires is not noble. It’s a waste of some damn good desires.” ~Jen Sincero

Those passages suggest a person who values seeking “the truth” as a vital project, even while maintaining that speaking “your truth” is indispensable, inspiring, and empowering. There is truth in both insights. If any observer of the #MeToo moment doubts the importance of believing in oneself—or the cost some abused men and women have paid for insufficient confidence in what they felt to be correct—Salma Hayek’s description of her years-long ordeal with Harvey Weinstein is as powerful an illustration of both points as I can imagine.Know your audience. I hope most people in your life will be willing to listen to you and care about what you need to say. If not, you need to get some new people.