How to Become Authentic by Being Honest

If we aren’t going to be honest with ourselves that will be an hinderance to our healing. We must be authentically ourselves and tell the truth. Alright so let’s go over some of the ways that we begin to emerge into our authentic selves and grow into who the Lord has called us to be. First thing first, honesty. We must be honest with ourselves, we must be honest about our issues, pains and triggers. We have to take time to really look at what bothers us about our lives. What is hurting us, the things that make us slip into shame or guilt?

Answer the questions like: What makes me angry? What makes me sad? In order to heal we must acknowledge the things we love about ourselves and the things we do not like. Honesty is a doorway to being authentic. Authenticity implies the lack of an attempt to control other people’s perceptions of us. So what authenticity means is that we are not going to work hard to control how people see us. We are not going to live our lives by putting on a show so that we can control how people see us. Are you guilty of putting on a show for others? Try to make sure it is what we want them to see and not who we really are. However, that’s not our responsibility; our responsibility is to feed our authentic selves who God has called us to be. Healing from the past means healing from people’s perceptions of who we used to be.