Honesty is Foundational to All Healing​

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Brooke Shields: Being vulnerable and being able to be honest about that vulnerability, to me, is the strongest you could be.

Jaclyn Wainwright: You cannot heal if you’re not willing to admit you’re sick. You cannot seek help if you’re not willing to be honest about your, your current state. But more importantly, I think especially when we’re dealing with the mental illness and emotional health problems, you can’t rely on your own self-talk. You can’t rely on the voice in your head because it’s maybe lying to you.

And so each person in the room really plays an important role in the wellbeing journey of an individual through being honest with people if they’re struggling.

So I would say, if you see somebody that is struggling and you are shying away from a difficult conversation, or you’re not willing to be honest with them about what you’re seeing or what you’re concerned about, you’re essentially keeping them sick. And you may be avoiding a conversation with a loved one, who is suffering in silence, and we know that sometimes people can’t ask for help hen they’re sitting in silence and suffering from an illness that they can’t control. They didn’t do that to themselves. So we have a responsibility to be honest with each other because if we can’t be honest with each other, we don’t have the opportunity to connect. We have no community.

Honesty is the foundation of not only health and wellbeing, but I think a relationship and you need to let people in in order to heal.