Rebeccah SilenceWorlds Leading Love & Emotional Healing Coach • Speaker • Author • Creator of The Unsilent Woman

You Don’t Have to Lose Yourself to Love Others.

8 Nov 2022 · 1 min

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A short reflective monologue (YouTube) by Rebeccah Silence about authenticity during the season of giving. The speaker argues that performing acts of love from obligation or fear is inauthentic; instead, we should meet our own needs, show up relaxed and genuine, and avoid losing ourselves in service to others.

Letting this be our season, our fall, our life, our time, even more than we're concerned about who we are being for other people. And I know that might sound a little nuts, because this is the season of giving and love and gratitude, and I want that. But we're actually in an illusion of giving and serving and loving when we're going through the motions out of fear and obligation, it's inauthentic. If we're doing it because we think we should, or we're supposed to, or because we're afraid of conflict and avoiding conflict, let's just be genuine and let's get our needs met while we show up fully, authentically and relaxed because we were true to ourselves and.