You may be wearing a mask this weekend for Halloween. It's the one time of year where we are out there and honest with the mask we are wearing.Yet we all wear a mask everyday. We wear a mask every time we don't speak our truth. We are hiding behind some other person or way of being because....we want to be loved, we want to be accepted, we want to please, we want to be successful we want...you name it. The list goes on.

Whenever we are not true to ourselves - stepped into the full integrity of our own shoes - we are out of alignment. Walking around wearing a mask expends so much more of our energy than we need to. Think how freeing it would be if we could let down our mask and could be more of ourselves. What's behind the mask? Fear.

We hold ourselves back because we are afraid:Of someone else's reaction.

Of not being loved

Of failing

Of....It's as hard and simple as loving and accepting yourself without restraint. Try this on for size: "What you think about me is none of my business." If you truly loved yourself would you care what I or anyone else thinks about what you do or say?

Therein lies the challenge: To embrace who you fully are without restraint.So, Happy Halloween. Wear your mask and practice allowing your true self to shine through. It can give you the courage to take down the other mask more often after Halloween.