To Be A Woman Who Doesn't Pretend

How pretending kept me alive, until it was nearly killing me...

There are one million ways people pretend. Ways people turn away from who they truly are, and from seeing what they are truly made of. People construct personas that are cardboard cut outs of Who We Wanna Be, the Fake-it-til-Ya-Make-It-Selves, and then spend their whole lives trying to live in them. 

How do I know? Because I was once a pro at it. I start…