Integrity

August 3, 2006
This little blog has become a force that urges me to self-reveal . . . and that's not something I ordinarily do. In fact, it seems like I've been hiding all my life. Hiding my smart and funny and talented little girl self from a family that expected compliance and ordinariness. Hiding my slim and sexy grown-up self under bulky clothes. Hiding my eccentricity and spiritual passion from a (now-ex) husband and his conforming world. Hiding my journal in a drawer.

But it's not just the fear that others will disapprove of me that's made me hide—because I have also been hiding from myself! Jung believed that at mid-life the soul goes through a crisis of integrity. It must explode outward or be forever silenced. That crisis has passed and now, my cyberfriends, it's time to detonate!

Explode and play!
Lilly