In the days of inspirational quotes plastered all over social media and a booming self-help industry, the idea of speaking your truth can easily fall into the overused, buzzword category pretty quickly. On Google, the search "speak your truth" returns over 400,000 hits and the tag #speakyourtruth has over 36,000 results on Instagram. This is obviously something we are talking about! But what does it mean? Why does it matter so much? And how exactly do we speak our truth? Well

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/23/brene-brown-live-bravely_n_5193927.html If you've spent any time on my website, you might know I have a small academic crush on Brené Brown. Maybe it's because she is from Texas and my southern self feels comforted by her accent and way of speaking, or maybe it is because she does brave, scary things and I think that's pretty awesome? Who knows... Anyway, the link above is a very brief (literally less than 90 seconds) video clip of Bre