True to Yourself

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”

(Frederick Douglass)

We hear it over and over, in different ways. Be true to yourself.

The paradox here is that if you are not doing the work to know yourself, to be your best self, to take in the truth of your life, sometimes "being true to oneself" is selfish and dangerous.

Do the work.

Then you can trust your truth, no matter what.