I am fascinated by humans and obsessed with waking up, or in other words 👉🏽 seeing through my own bullshit to the truth. My bio page lists my interests as “yoga, psychology, philosophy, sexuality, and relationships...”, which are all wonderful pursuits, but really they’re just different tools or techniques towards awakening.

My name here on Steemit was chosen with intention. For decades I faked being happy and struggled to mask and hide intense inner angst and depression. Holding my tongue and my feelings inside for so long created enough heat, steam and pressure in my psyche that the former me finally metaphorically burst or woke up a few years back, revealing a more authentic me who now openly shares herself.

Get it? Hive account@steemed-open ... 😉

In essence this page is both a practice and a celebration of me being open, honest, real, and surrendering the fight to remain cloaked, or hidden by any facade. I share my struggles, my gloriousness, and my mundane stuff in between on my path to waking up with as much honest and objectivity as I can muster.

Brené Brown, an expert on vulnerability, in exhaustively researching this emotion found:

the answer that appeared over and over in all of our efforts to better understand vulnerability? Naked. Vulnerability is like being naked onstage and hoping for applause rather than laughter. It’s being naked when everyone else is fully clothed...

That’s me

This page is my practice of being vulnerable. Standing before you often half naked, either physically, mentally or emotionally, and learning to breathe through that discomfort and just...be vs my old ways of run and hide.

I think every human has this same desire somewhere inside. To be vulnerable, or safely exposed, untangled from their mental games, defragmented, fully revealed, seen in whole and yet still loved and accepted.