How Honesty Helped Me as an Introverted Empath

Being honest triumphs over self-help books

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I heard it’s Friday? Time flies! It is also almost April, how have you grown since 2019 started?

I have accomplished outwardly much lesser this year yet I am growing so much more within, living deeper and fuller as an emotional being. I have these random, good and silly days before the next wave of unexplainable low hit me. I used to question why and make a contrast between my highs and lows. I identified positively to the happy moments and resisted the bouts of depressions. Unconsciously, I was also hanging out with certain people and reading from places that hype around constant positivity. That made me feel worse.

It was a form of fake positivity I never resonated with, and I felt alienated. I hated myself for feeling too much over most things. They say control your thoughts over emotions, which I sure did. While there are certain truths to how we can manage our mind towards an outcome that we want, I learned that it was important to acknowledge my own feelings.

What actually helped me in coping better emotionally was being honest and real with my emotions. If I do not feel my best, I need not pretend to be something else I am not. When I started sharing my feelings honestly in my posts, I was afraid of the…