authenticity

Sometimes there will be a theme that comes up for me throughout a period of time. Today's recurring theme has been Truth.

The day began with providing my partner with some peer support. They needed reminding of the Truth of how things are, and to be reminded of the Truth of who they are. We discussed radical acceptance and living authentically.

After lunch, I had a workshop on the Seven Sacred Teachings offered to us by indigenous peoples across the continent. Today's teaching was honesty, to others, to ourselves, in relation to reality, and in relation to our spiritual path and guides. Speaking and living and acting in Truth.

Before dinner, I chose to watch a nostalgic kid's movie about an important car race. One of the characters meditates on desert hill between races, seeking guidance from his ancestors. He receives a vision, an elder who speaks to him and warns him of a danger in his path. The man believes this danger to be a physical threat and continues with caution. After the next race, he goes to meditate and the elder comes to him again. When he asks the elder what the danger was, the elder replied, "The greatest danger of all is to see only what you want to see, and not what is true."

Does this theme of honesty and truth resonate for anyone else today?

And does this ever happen to you? Do you recieve thematic lessons from the universe, etc?

#MentalHealth #Spirituality #Truth #honesty #RadicalAcceptance #authenticity

I struggle to maintain good hygiene. I am in some strange unrecognizable place. I know the tools I can even give some fairly good advice. This strange place that I am in I can't cream full-on depression but I don't suppose I could claim that I am in a completely healthy state of mine either. I get up with good intentions but somehow the day gets away from me. Before I know it it's bedtime and then I feel too tired. I eventually make myself it's not like I go for weeks. Maybe only just a few days if I have nowhere to go. Today on my Facebook someone shared a Tik Tok they said people like me should be shot they showed a rat cleaning itself. They said if the rat could clean itself then so could you. There are no excuses they said. This 1 video Hit me hard. Now I'm just feeling terrible about myself and trying hard to figure out what my problem is. I know I'm not alone because someone else shared something similar earlier only I was too embarrassed to comment. I should have participated I should have been open an authentic then. But I wasn't so I am being vulnerable and authentic now. Not only did it make me feel bad about myself but I screamed internally you just don't understand. But I figured there was no sense in making comment about depression and mental illness and showing compassion for it. #BipolarDisorder #checkinonme #Shame #MajorDepression #CPTSD #authenticity #Conqure The Mind #whatmoodisthis

I'm sick of the NAMI moms.
You are not a peer.
My lived experience is first hand.
*This* is mental illness. #Schizophrenia #Psychosis #medicationmanagement #treatment #Support #SupportGroups #Vent #venting #Irritated #notBPD #Disability #peer #livedexperience #contrary #power #powerstruggles #Voice #genuine #authenticity #Autonomy #inourownvoice

#CPTSD #PTSD #MentalHealth #DID #osdd #dissociativedisorders #DissociativeIdentityDisorder #LifeAfterTrauma #letstalkaboutmentalhealth

We have stated that our system’s goal is authenticity in all areas of life, but we realized that this is a really vague concept. What does that even mean or look like?

Until very recently, we thought of authenticity as how others view us, but this is completely outside our control. We cannot, nor should we, try to base our happiness on others’ opinions. We would never achieve our goals.

We had it backwards.

Instead, we think Authenticity is about how we chose to interact with the world and those around us. It’s about setting clear, firm, and heathy boundaries, then maintaining them.

So what does that *look* like?

It looks like using our individual voices instead of covering them up. It looks like letting the #littles dress how they want and dare people to say something about it. It looks like referring to ourselves as “we” or “us” in normal conversations and not worrying about what people think.

We can’t control the thoughts and opinions of others, but we can control our own thoughts and behaviors. And that’s Authenticity.