We are new at expressing ourselves

I have been doing different types of events for men and women for several weeks to connect with our emotions and above all to express ourselves. From writing, to dancing and painting, expressing ourselves with the word and with the body.

And today, while organizing the next event. I was thinking about the reason why I'm doing this; and I was remembering the little girl I was (that we all were), who couldn't/know how to express everything she needed to, until she forgot how to do it, and had to relearn.

Like everything else, the more you practice it the better you become, and like everything else, you start small... especially when it's something as new as expressing yourself. Maybe you start writing for yourself, then dancing with others, and then maybe sharing yourself in a group, who knows how far you want and allow yourself to express yourself; because this last one is one of the things you discover first, you realize that you are the one who has to give yourself permission to express yourself, and that the first person who has to listen to you is yourself. And that is how you begin to recover that freedom from when you were a child, the true freedom of expression, you begin to feel free expressing who you are, what you feel, what you like, what you are passionate about, what you are afraid of, what you are ashamed of; with fear and with love, because we are no longer children and fears of rejection and loneliness will appear from time to time, and you learn to go through them. The good thing about learning to express yourself in a group is that the permissions that others give you inspire you to give yourself the permissions you need, and right now they inspire me to keep organizing these events.

With these events it also becomes very evident how expert we have become at expressing ourselves about others, about what we have, about what we know, and we have completely forgotten to express ourselves for who we are. I guess it's hard to express something we don't know about, maybe that's why we express so little of ourselves?

Who am I? I'm Victoria Soriano, a curious woman who likes to wonder about life... and who now shares it in www.cvictoriasoriano.com