By Barrie Davenport
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” ~Buddha
Do you have a secret?
Are you holding something inside that you are afraid to admit to others — or maybe even acknowledge fully to yourself?
A secret, a hidden or repressed truth, is like a parasitic worm eating you up from the inside out. Eventually the truth wins — but at what cost?
Guilt, shame, and pretense almost always manifest in physical illness, depression, anxiety, substance abuse, or some other painful expression of repression or lying.
You don’t have to have committed a heinous crime to experience the pain of a secret life. (Although I’ve often wondered why guilty murderers keep proclaiming their innocence when they’ve... More...
