Withholding Hard Truths

The quickest way to reduce your sense of self-importance (and increase your self-care) is to entrust the people around you with the difficult information you believe that only you can handle. We tell ourselves these stories that if the people around us knew.... (insert hard truth), then they would be stressed and burdened and de-stabilized. There is merit to waiting for the right time to bring people in, but there is also power and liberation in believing in people to be 1) capable of handling the truth, 2) capable of taking action on that truth, and then 3) capable of caring for themselves with that truth. The sooner we understand the true story about the people around us, the sooner we understand the false story we tell ourselves about ourselves.