One of the more significant tensions we feel (or, at least I do) is...if we manifest our true-self more obviously, what risk does that introduce to our prospects for acceptance, especially from those people that are close to us, whose acceptance we feel we need?
For me, I suspect this works itself out in a way that keeps me a little...under wraps. How much can I really expose about what I think or feel or want?
But, there is a surprise in this dilemma — often what keep me slightly under wraps actually contributes to the dynamic of what feels like acceptance or not acceptance. Authentic vulnerability expressing who we are, is what actually draws others to us.
...unless it doesn’t and drives people away (which does happen), but not nearly as often as we might think.
