Owning Our Story

This is a follow up to the last post, so if you haven't read it yet, do! In Brene's book The Gifts of Imperfection she says, "Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do."  What is owning your story.  I am very receptive to ideas, and concepts.  I will argue points, but am I am fairly easy going, and can be swooned quickly. I thought owning my story was to make sure that every person knew every detail of  my situation.  Now don't get ahead of yourself, I didn't run out and tell everyone, or post it on facebook. I began thinking of certain people that I was going to have to tell, and what their reaction would be.  It horrified me!  I started having anxiety and panic attacks.  I avoided going in public in fear that I would see someone who may have heard something was going on.  If this is you, calm down, it's okay.  Owning your story isn't running and posting it on facebook, or tweeting about it.  Every person that you interact with has energy, and things going on in their life.  All of them will send energies your way, positive or negative.  Send that energy back, if it's not meant to be yours, send it back.  On that same note, not everyone of those people deserves to know your story.  In fact, some of them are not worthy of knowing your story.  The amazing and wonderful thing about that is you get to decide!