Please welcome Lindsay Fischer to #BeReal. On Reinvention, Releasing Reality and Whole-Hearted Living I’ve never felt more alive than the day I decided to take the screen off and be myself, releasing stuck pieces of reality from the filter used as my defense and watching the withheld, eager remnants descend in the very first pour.…
Please welcome Ashley Fuchs to #BeReal. Be Real, No Buts About It by Ashley Fuchs, The Malleable Mom “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald “She’s beautiful, but she’s also incredibly…
A friend asked me if I had ever tried to meditate. I told him I had tried but my mind sounds like a crazy drunken concert crowd. Always loud. Always rowdy. He sent me some links to try and I tried. I fell asleep with a quiet mind. It was strange. This morning I woke up…
Please welcome my #BeReal guest today, Martin Baker. A few weeks ago I was sitting at my favourite table—corner table, right at the back—in my favourite coffee bar and got into conversation with a fellow customer about writing and literature. I learned two interesting things about the city I’ve lived in almost thirty years.…
My #BeReal guest today is Jeff Welch. One of the things I love about #BeReal is that I don’t censor anyone. I love the unique voices. Of course we are looking for the acceptance of positive and real behavior so I am selective about who I invite to write here. That is to say I…
My #BeReal guest today is Shawn Henfling. “I don’t need to be Michael Jordan but I’d at least like to be in the NBA.” I don’t like myself. Rather, I don’t like who I think I am. I can’t really hate myself because I don’t know who “myself” is. I’ve gotten through 38 years of…
Welcome to the #BeReal series! I want to showcase real people. You will judge them. That’s okay. And it will be natural for you to do that. To read all the #BeReal posts to date you can click HERE. I put together this series because teens everywhere are jumping on this #DontJudgeMe bandwagon. Well, I think the…
My #BeReal guest today is Allison Hill. It has taken me the better part of forty two years to understand what it means to actually be real. It’s not about what you actually show on the outside. Don’t get me wrong, that’s a part of it. What you show to the world is what they…
My #BeReal guest today is Diana Gordon. I’ve been asked “are they real” more times than I can count—and not just about a sparkly piece of jewelry or pieces of vintage Fiestaware, but about the curls in my hair and the breasts that have always been large-for-my-size. The same question… As though somehow my accessories…
My #BeReal guest today is Britta Buchanan. What does it mean to #bereal? I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, in the context of how I perceive myself and in the context of how others perceive me. As I write this, I am wrapping up one semester of teaching English in Thailand with the…
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