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\nWe bring ourselves into life in a dance we learned right from our earliest days\u2026 in which we\u2019re often carefully managing what we can show to one another of ourselves. And others learn to dance with us in this way too, finding out from being around us what is ok to talk about, and what to avoid. Pretty soon we\u2019re all dancing around that which, if we pay attention, was in plain view all along.
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\nOftentimes the dance feels necessary. Sometimes it is necessary. But keeping on the surface of things is hardly a way towards the intimacy, connection, contact and realness we long for. So who could we be for ourselves and for one another, so that we can bring ourselves - and all our rich complexity - into the light for the benefit of everyone around us?
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\nHosted, as always, by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.
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\nTurning Towards Life, a week-by-week conversation inviting us deeply into our lives, is a live 30 minute conversation hosted by Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn of Thirdspace.\xa0 Find us on FaceBook to watch live and join in the lively conversation on this episode. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website, and you can also watch and listen on Instagram, YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Google, Amazon Music and Spotify.
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\nHere's our source for this week:
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\nWhat if we could just tell each other?
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\nParts of us lie in quiet, sly shadows.\xa0
\nPublicly undiscernible, or so we believe.\xa0
\nThe truth is they are experienced by others,\xa0
\nDespite our internal dance to conceal them.
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\nWhen we commit to something,\xa0
\nAnd our actions \u201csay\u201d otherwise,\xa0
\nThey betray the fa\xe7ade we\xa0
\nMade to manage others\u2019 views of us.
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\nIf we knew, and accepted that we were visible,\xa0
\nWe\u2019d know there would be no point in trying to hide.\xa0
\nHow people feel around us reveals so much of us.\xa0
\nWhat if we could just tell each other?
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\nInstead of hiding in plain sight,
\nwe\u2019d be open to anything anyone brought our way.
\nHere I am,
\nready and willing to learn.
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\nBy Lizzie Winn
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\nPhoto by Alexis Brown on Unsplash\n