15/10/2025
A Question That has now Opened a Rabbit Hole for me!!!
“Why do I always over-explain everything?”
That one question has hit me harder than I expected to be truthfully honest.
It started as a simple curiosity…
and ended up unraveling layers I didn’t even know were still holding me hostage or more on the lines of the deeper meaning of WHY this question 🤔
I realised, I over-explain not because I love to talk to build stronger connections but because somewhere deep down, I’m still trying to be understood.
Still trying to prove that my intentions are good.
Still trying to feel safe in being me the raw, unfiltered, messy, and real ME.
Still feeling into the fear but on another layer that im now sitting with.
These last few days as well as some deeper moments of allowing myself to feel into other layers while I was away up north and these really rised up for me in my space.
The Fear of being misunderstood gave me a moment of a understanding of a deep-seated emotion that if I don't explain every detail, I will be judged, rejected, or my intentions will be misconstrued.
The Past experiences Ive encounted was a learnt behaviour from childhood, where I was taught that acceptance was conditional on being understood or that I were often made to feel at fault which caused fear of not been understood or not been enough or a failure which than moves into Anxiety, which was created as my non-conscious coping mechanism to try and manage a situation where I felt defensive to than it create a new behaviour of Control
Which I was able to control the narrative and providing every possible justification for my actions or words.
Every time I over-explained, I was really saying:
Please don’t misunderstand me.
Please don’t see me as the villain.
Please just see me…..the real me…. And accept me for me…..
It’s funny how one question can open a whole rabbit hole of truth.
The truth that somewhere along the way,
I learned that being misunderstood wasn’t safe.
That silence could mean rejection.
That mistakes meant I had to justify my worth.
And now, I’m slowly learning to sit with that silence.
To breathe before I explain which this new behaviour or re-programming is not as easy as it looks/do but I need to remind myself
I don’t need to shrink or prove or translate my heart for others to be understood, I need to do all this for me and back myself as the Queen I am.
Sometimes it’s okay to let people not get it.
it’s OK to be and to feel enough.
Because real understanding begins within.
And maybe this whole journey, this messy, beautiful self-awareness is about remembering that I was never meant to explain my existence.
I was meant to embody it, so here it goes I give full attention in this soace to allow myself to do.
Raw truth. Real healing. Soul remembrance.
Yours Truly
Char 💖