How we lie to ourselves | Pt. 2

The drawbacks of lying to ourselves are simply that we miss key opportunities for growth and learning. The things we are in denial about are painful but contain material that is potentially vital to our overall growth and development.

An Experiment in Honesty

First, consider the list of defensive, self deceiving moves listed in the blue box. Can you remember a specific time or incident in your life when you employed one or more of those strategies? What were you trying to hide from yourself?

Write about it.

Next, find a trusted

and safe person to share

it with. It can help to do

this in a group or one

other person because

the enemy of such an

effort is often the sense

that we are all alone.

And we are not. The

solution is the

normalization of the

disavowed parts of

ourselves.

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