Let’s get NAKED!

We hide, all the time we hide ourselves.  Emotionally, spiritually, physically, mentally and everything in-between.
I've been doing a lot of work into my own journey on what it is to bare myself to the world and it has been a new level of discovery to say the least.
Old fears and patterns come up, things that I thought I had put to rest a long time ago.  Fears that are mostly based around the old lie that "I'm not good enough".  
Which is total and utter bullshit.  
We are all enough, every one of us.  The lie that we have fed ourselves for so long is just that, a lie.  
I know that I am not alone in that feeling of "not enough", there are so many books and studies and teachings surrounding this epidemic.  

The idea of "spending more time naked" popped up for me today and it means more (and exactly) what you think and it tied directly to my own lie of "I'm not enough".

~We need to spend more time naked in our vulnerability and honesty with ourselves. Really taking the time to get to know our own values, dive into our beliefs and recognize where we might be holding ourselves back, getting accountable with who we are and where we are in our journey in this world.
~We have to be naked in our needs; to be in nature, to sit and read a book, to walk slowly through the fall leaves. To have a cry, to laugh at the fart joke. To sit in the sun and let it hit our bare breasts and, for the men out there, it can hit their...well....balls.  
We can be naked in our needs.
But it takes vulnerability, it takes courage, it takes love, it takes accountability and a wide consciousness.
And
~We need to spend more time naked with ourselves and our partners.  I know that sometimes there is a trust required, something that needs to be built up. A lot of time "clearing the glass" between the parties needs to be a part of the process (or even with self, honesty with ourselves).  But there is a deep beauty in it, as my beloved and I are learning as we venture into our own journey of discovery and re-learning of what it is to be intimate and love physically.  
But you know what?
I wouldn't change it for the world.
I wouldn't stop this new "nakedness" coming up for me, no matter how scary it is.  Because what's the alternative?  To stay the same and hope things change?

But that's how it showed up for me today, to be naked.  But call it what you will, I hope it is with you in your own journey in this world.

Know that I am here for you, I believe in you and I know how worthy you are.

With love,

Emily