The Conversations You’re Avoiding With Yourself

Being able to have honest conversations with other people, especially the ones that feel uncomfortable or uncertain or charged in a way you can’t quite predict, asks something much deeper than simply knowing what to say or how to say it well. It asks whether we have been willing to sit in that same level of honesty with ourselves first, without immediately softening what we find, reshaping it into something easier to hold, or moving away from it the moment it begins to ask something real of us.