I couldn’t get on the radio and say, ‘Ugh, I’ve been up since 3am and milk is leaking from my boobs. So I invite you to play with the practice of speaking the truth and notice how freeing it feels to communicate in an honest way. My truth” may be benign in comparison, but if we want to clean up disinformation and limit the damage it does to our societies, we need to look at every one of its incarnations. Joan Moran is a keynote speaker, commanding the stage with her delightful humor, raw energy, and wealth of life experiences.

There are signs to watch for as you learn, these will help you discover and understand exactly when you’re not speaking your truth, and how to turn it around so that you are. Another way of framing this idea is that, to remain fully conscious in your life, it is important to speak your truth, which in turn, increases self-knowledge. Relentless Inner Critic: A voice trained to live in a dark cave has a strong inner critic to keep it there.Perhaps your learning lies in listening to your intuition, creating boundaries around your time, saying, “I can’t do it for you”, valuing your ideas, or asserting yourself. I would never know it , as when I cry it is alone, when I ask for anything from him he is always acting so inconvienced. Illuminate the darkness within through your journey of healing and it becomes increasingly obvious the darkness running our world. In the same way, perhaps the most powerful tool for your mental health, and certainly for the health of your relationships, is your tongue.

Don’t believe its favorite sayings such as: You’ll disappoint them; You’ll do it wrong; You’ll fail miserably; You’re not capable; They won’t listen; What if…; Know that these are voices of the past, not the present. If you’ve spent a lifetime pretending and hiding, it can feel really awkward and messy when you start to speak your truth. In the state of doing, our subconscious can lead freely with old beliefs and programs that might not even be ours to begin with.She hosted the self-help author Louise Hay, who once said Holocaust victims may have been paying for sins in a previous life. As a recovering people-pleaser, I spent much of my life believing it was my responsibility to facilitate, or ease the tension in, conversations. So much pain and disappointment as a result of unconscious bias, as well as blatant discrimination, came up for me and the many times I had had to experience it in my lifetime.