5 • 651 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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0:00.0 | Well, hello there. My name is Morgan Harper Nichols. I'm an artist and a writer, and this is a space where I share poetry and prose that I hope can make a little room for you to slow down and take a few deep breaths as you prepare for whatever lies ahead. There is more to life than hiding away. How to be |
0:24.0 | courageous now. One of the hardest things in life is to allow ourselves to be seen. It's hard to be |
0:34.9 | vulnerable and share your true emotions and say the things that your heart has been longing to say. |
0:42.8 | Whether you're sharing publicly or even opening up to a friend or a family member, |
0:49.0 | perhaps you've felt that feeling of your heart racing and you finally get the courage to say what you've been trying to |
0:56.9 | say for so long. Maybe you felt a lump in your throat before you gave the speech or before you said |
1:04.9 | I love you. Perhaps it's hard to press publish because the inner critic is so loud in your mind to the |
1:12.4 | point that you fear the other critics that will join in, mocking you, making fun of you, making |
1:18.8 | you think less of yourself. You wonder who might scroll through social media and |
1:25.3 | misunderstand or judge something you've shared, whatever it is, |
1:30.8 | there are one million reasons to stay in the shadows. But there is a reason to come into the light. |
1:41.4 | When you choose to step forth, whatever that looks like in your life, you are giving someone |
1:48.4 | else courage to do the same. When you say, I love you, you open up the door for that other person |
1:56.8 | to be honest about their feelings. And even if their answer is not what you wanted it to be, |
2:04.2 | at least now you know the truth. At least now the truth isn't hiding behind nuances and being |
2:12.7 | afraid to speak openly and honestly. Stepping into the light is a hard place to be, but it leads to honesty. |
2:22.9 | It leads to more opportunities for growth. |
2:27.4 | And here's the thing. |
2:29.1 | When you make the choice to stop holding back and to stop hiding away and to step into the light, there is grace, |
2:38.5 | grace that reminds you that you are allowed to inch your way into the light. If you've been thinking |
2:45.6 | about sharing your story, you don't have to start with sharing everything that's ever happened in your life |
2:52.0 | since childhood. You can share about your newfound love of photography and how you've been |
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