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REFRESH THE SOUL
How to Take Up the Torch and Stand Up For Your Truth Every Day
What Does Using Your Voice Look Like For You?
Standing up and holding yourself accountable isn’t easy. Sometimes it takes a lot of guts. And, other times, it’s easy because you’re just plain mad.
What’s a better way?
How do you stand up for your Truth and know that you are a better person for it? How do you use your voice in life-giving ways?
If you cannot live out of your truth, you aren’t authentic. When you’re not authentic, you’re trying to be someone else.
I always use this phrase, “I am an orange, but I’ve been trying to be an apple.” The keyword is “trying” because I can try all I want to be an apple, but my orange keeps popping up. And it’s okay! It’s more than okay. I’m learning how to live into my orange.
The process of becoming aware of your talents and potential is to remove what is not true for you or about you, so that you can be the person you were already supposed to be. Your truth matters. You matter.
Understandably, if you were raised in a nuclear family, you were modeled specific values. Sometimes you wore those values with celebration, but inside, deep in your gut, you cringed every…
