120. There is Power in Silence: 5 Ways to Remain Authentic When You Have Something to Say
Spiritually Hungry
Monica Berg and Michael Berg
4.8 • 617 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In a desire to share their truth, some people overshare and mistake it for authenticity. Not every truth needs to be shared. Authenticity is about being brave enough to be yourself and genuine enough to live according to your values. There is a time to speak up and a time for quiet reflection. In this insightful episode of Spiritually Hungry, Monica and Michael discuss how to avoid the pitfalls of oversharing and remain aligned to your core beliefs.
“When you are actively looking at another person and judging them or saying something negative about them, you are actively putting yourself in a place of darkness and negativity.”
– Michael Berg
“Prince Harry and the Value of Silence” by Patti Davis
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/07/opinion/prince-harry-and-the-value-of-silence.html
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| 0:00.0 | If you think about authenticity, it's about being brave enough to be yourself and genuine enough to live according to your values. |
| 0:15.7 | And I think by that definition, people say, well, then that gives me the right, then to share all of these things |
| 0:21.2 | that have happened to me. But then it's not necessarily sharing every intimate detail of your |
| 0:26.7 | life or your deepest, dark, a secret to the world. I think a lot of things have to be |
| 0:30.7 | considered before going out and speaking in that way. |
| 0:36.9 | Welcome to the spiritually hungry podcast. |
| 0:40.4 | Today's topic is oversharing. |
| 0:43.1 | Oversharing. |
| 0:44.7 | You might have titled it something else. |
| 0:47.0 | What would you have titled today's podcast? |
| 0:49.6 | Well, I think it's about being thoughtful in what we share, right? And especially as it really |
| 0:59.0 | to judge it, judging others. |
| 1:01.0 | So in a word? |
| 1:02.0 | Judgment. |
| 1:03.0 | It's not a secret that people have voracious appetites for reality TV, tell all biographies and autobiographies. |
| 1:13.6 | The more salacious, the better. |
| 1:16.6 | Even just those words, they sound like, ooh, tell me more. |
| 1:20.6 | Tell all books are a good example of oversharing and are often motivated by a desire to feel vindicated. |
| 1:26.6 | I also think in some way it's to take back your own power. |
| 1:31.9 | Like if you tell your story, especially if you don't like the way other people are telling |
| 1:35.0 | a story about you or creating a narrative for you, this is a way to kind of claim that back. |
| 1:40.7 | But there's a way and a time to do it. |
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