The Greater Risk Is Not Being Authentically You

Authenticity sounds simple, right? To be yourself, fearlessly. Yet at some point for most of us we learned our authentic self expression was actually something to be feared.

Authenticity comes with great risk, a risk that who we really are won’t be understood or accepted in our most-important relationships. The fear of such isolation often leads us to suppress many of the parts of us which make us so beautifully and authentically unique.

So, to provide a perceived sense of safety, we dim our light for those who can’t handle our brightness, for we fear being left alone in the darkness. Our fear of abandonment leads us to abandon our truest self, an increasingly high price to pay the longer we choose to do so.

Conformity makes everyone comfortable. Except us.

In time we will be pained realizing the greater risk is in not authentically expressing who we are. And when that pain won’t relent, when our inner child’s determined and powerful voice rises up and can no longer be muted, we are reminded we risk not living the life we innately know we were created to live.

You may not feel like there is a safe space for you to be fully you. But authenticity is something you must reclaim from yourself for yourself, and the process includes creating that safe space for you to be you. It’s an intentional space, a space where you no longer compromise your standards, a space where no longer discard your dreams. A space where you accept your worthiness to be all you know yourself to be and accepting the responsibility for bringing that highest version of you to life.

You know who you really are. You know what you’re really worth. You know what you really want to create for yourself.

We get to decide which life we will live, and no matter the life we choose, the corresponding energies of the choice we make will attract everything and everyone we will need on our selected journey. Even if it’s a journey of habitual conformity and compliance we really don’t want to be on in the first place, those energies will continue to attract everything and everyone to keep us exactly where we know we don’t want to be. 

There is an empowering level of strength and tranquility only found when the life you live is aligned with the life you know you were created to live.

So, which life are you going to live? 

The greatest risk is deciding to live the wrong one.

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