Isn't it a bit crazy that sometimes being authentic can seem like the boldest thing a person can do? Think about it for a second. You finally decide to stay true to yourself and follow your own path... but then you get this strange feeling that somebody is going to find you out.

As Camille Maurine and Lorin Roche note in Meditation Secrets for Women: Discovering Your Passion, Pleasure, and Inner Peace:

"It can feel forbidden, like rebellion or even theft, as if you have to steal back your own power."

So what can you do to overcome this feeling?

Maurine and Roche would argue that being authentic also means giving back to the community we're part of. We all have our own role to play in the society, and that role comes with certain responsibilities of each of us. Perhaps one of them is simply to show up exactly the way we are.

Kindly,

Neva.