#140: The Truth Will Set You Free - Solo Episode

The Mark Groves Podcast

Mark Groves

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

When you don't stand in the truth of what, you're not going to get what you want - pretty simple right? Whether or not we decide to talk about our truth, it will always still live inside you. Not honouring our truth leads to small betrayals, which usually become giant betrayals later on and typically we can look back and see where we betrayed ourselves initially in order to get there. This week I share a personal story from my past where I self abandoned and didn't declare what I really wanted. The truth always sets us free, no matter how difficult it can be to say it. ~ Discover: Why do we fear stepping into our truth? The dangers of staying in the comfort zone Why we self-betray and self-abandon in effort to keep connection Why we need to explore grief The two most important questions you need to ask yourself Small betrayals become giant betrayals later Where do you betray yourself? The power of claiming yourself Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Mark Groves podcast.
0:11.3	I'm going to share with you a personal story of mine today from my own relational experience,
0:18.0	something that certainly molded me and really shaped a lot of my
0:22.3	relational life when I wasn't aware of it. Before I do that, I want to share something that I wrote
0:28.1	that is relevant and will connect. And I'll start that now. If the truth burns down a relationship,
0:40.8	a family, a community, or a society, it was only ever held together by lies. And to that I say, let it burn. I never want to live in a world
0:47.7	where our need for comfort supersedes our need to stand on a foundation only the truth can provide.
0:54.8	Relationships so often dance around the elephant in the room.
0:58.8	Disconnection, lies, betrayal, distance, hurt, pain, discomfort.
1:04.1	All of it gets swept under the rug and traded in for the illusion of connection and safety.
1:09.3	Families, societies, businesses, cultures, religions. A lot of them
1:13.1	often function with the collective agreement that we don't talk about that thing or those things.
1:18.8	But whether you talk about the truth, the truth always lives. It lingers in the ether and hiding
1:24.5	from it comes out in shadow-based coping mechanisms and attempting to escape
1:28.8	from the reality that integrity had to leave the table for us to sit at it. But the reality is that
1:35.0	when we have to participate in a lie to hold any human system afloat, we have to trade in a part of
1:40.1	ourselves. Now, granted, I want to add the caveat that sometimes we don't bring the truth
1:45.5	forward for our own survival and or for the survival of our children. And I'm not here to be the
1:52.1	judge of what is right or wrong to hold. But what I do know is that the only person whose opinion
1:57.8	matters is our opinion about ourselves and what is right for us in
2:02.5	those circumstances. The truth always sets us free. And in a relationship, if it liberates one
2:08.8	person, it liberates the other, they just don't know it yet. When we're conditioned to participate
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