1. I don’t think instagram is fake… because I don’t use it in a fake way. 🙃 I’m clear on what this tool is and use it with intentionality as such. I don’t believe this is the space to bring my most vulnerable processes l’m in… that’s actually not healthy relating. Just as you wouldn’t walk up to the grocery clerk and whisper your biggest fears/insecurities in their ear, or air them on a billboard in your town… I don’t post them on IG. I hold my inner sanctum sacredly and bring it to intimate relationships only. Which is… healthy discernment, not being fake.
2. I trust that you don’t need me to share my “humanness” to know that I’m human too. And if you do… if you’re waiting for me to share that I struggle with the same thing you do to be able to relate to me… I invite you to look at the pedestals you put people on, to the way you relate to power/success, to the limitations you are living into and projecting onto others.
3. My vulnerable share here (vulnerability = sharing a thing that risks rejection by other, and I’m pretty certain this will offend some if not many)… I have not felt a *sigh of relief* when l’ve read any of these “bts vulnerability” posts. They feel unclean to me. Like the writer is offloading the shame they’re holding about the thing they’ve been hiding or pretending to not be… and the readers who relate are getting to have their own limitations/ shame validated/soothed. That’s not the evolution I stand for.
The posts I have read have been more insightful into the psyche of the human that wrote it… and how they use and relate to this app/tool and to leadership… than it is into the app/tool or leadership in general.
4. I’m just not hiding anything from y’all lol. I’m not posturing or performing or trying to BE somebody on this platform… while hiding what I fear will “out” me for not being that. I’m choosing what I share here that is… (1) in alignment with my brand, (2) is an embodied message I want to share, and (3) feels like a correct level of intimacy to broadcast publicly.
I’ve been radically honest and vulnerable with y’all about some really personal things. But everything l’ve shared has come from a place of — l’ve already processed this and it feels like a lesson / can lead with and hold publicly, amidst whatever opinions or projections come my way. I don’t share gaping wounds. I work on them and evolve with them bts and trust that y’all feel my embodiment while also knowing that… of course I’m a human and there’s more going on bts that I don’t publicly display.
That is truly empowered, embodied, heArt-driven leadership.
Anytime I share about me on this app, it’s really for you. 🪞 This isn’t my journal. This isn’t me opening up to my most intimate loved ones, my sacred inner circle. This is a tool where I can teach, lead, share what my heArt & soul feel a yes for… for The Ones who feel a yes too. If you don’t, great. Love your discernment. You are now free to carry on with your day. 💎
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