If You're Not Expressing, You're Self-Oppressing

When my friend Fatima recently shared those words with me, it hit me HARD, and at the same time I knew how wise and true her words were.

• If I am not speaking my truth, I am not living in integrity.
• If I am seething in silence, it is only hurting me.
• If I am waiting and waiting for the right time, I will wait forever because there is never a “right” time.
• If I keep telling myself, “They probably didn’t mean it,” then I will continue to question and doubt.

That is why it is so important to communicate, but not just communicate for the sake of being heard, but communicate for the sake of CONNECTING.

“Everybody communicates. Few Connect.” John C. Maxwell

I couldn’t agree more with Mr. Maxwell.

We do communicate all the time.

We communicate with our words.
We communicate with our silences.
We communicate with our actions.
We communicate with our presence.
We communicate with our body.

But is all that communicating serving you and the relationship?

Compassion. Connection. Collaboration.