Sometimes the thing that holds us back the most is our reluctance to be honest with ourselves. The term “brutally honest” comes to mind, but really, it’s compassionate honestly that is needed.  And sometimes we must go through a lot before we are finally ready to step into the truth versus to side step it, especially if the truth has been calling us for some time, but was ignored, overlooked, or cast aside. For example, maybe we have repeated perceptions and intuitions about ourselves that we don’t want to embrace, so we just stick with what we want to believe about ourselves.  Other times we are totally blind to the truth –…