Hi everybody welcome back to In The Light. I'm so happy to have you here

wondering how you're doing wishing I could see your faces right now and you could

tell me how you are because it matters to me. How are you doing?

How about taking a moment to answer that question for yourself? Slow down wherever you are and think about that. How am I doing? If someone were to ask me that and I was to answer honestly, what might I say?

Honesty is critical in walking through the season of our lives that we're in as a society

and I'm sure in the individual issues that you may be having in your life in this episode we're going to try and

go to another level when it comes to honesty. One of the themes of the 12 steps

definitely is this idea of fearless honesty.

Last week with Dr Darius Daniels, we talked about taking a fearless self- inventory,

and we really looked at our relationships but it required us to look at ourselves

not the person we were in relationship with. That fearless self-inventory was about looking inside and that is a running theme when it comes to

change in the 12-step model.

Another running theme is honesty.

The model encourages us to be honest with other people about when we're wrong or about the

damage we may have done. But I want to challenge you today to be honest in terms of what's going on inside of you, what's going on in your life.

Because when we're able to be our entire selves, wherever we are, we experience a different kind of freedom.

It can be scary to do that.

I try to model it for you guys.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm telling my own business too much on here, but I'm going to keep on doing it because I want you to know that it has brought such an important freedom to my life to be able to be honest

about the things I've been through the things I am going through where I have

weaknesses what I'm working on.

That kind of honesty is freeing and it's empowering.

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