Mustardseed Talks

Sometimes, the better a person knows us, the more uncomfortable we find being in their presence. There is the ever present risk that they might (inadvertently?) expose us in a way we are not happy to be exposed. But it can be even trickier than that… we might not even be consciously aware of precisely what we are uncomfortable with. So to further protect ourselves, we instinctively find something unacceptable in the other who (inadvertently) threatens us. This garrisons us with emotional distance. Any of us are vulnerable to this kind of instinctual survival strategy if we harbour a fear of the truth - and lets face it… most of us have experienced that fear at least once in our lives (and that probably won’t have been the last time)! But to those who are willing to engage the truth…