We All Do It. But Why? 😊

Let's be honest.

We've all done it.

The little white lie. The exaggeration. The version of events that makes us look slightly better than we actually were.

And in the moment — it works. Crisis averted. Awkwardness avoided. Nobody got hurt.

Except it's never quite that simple, is it?

Because the thing about lying — even the small kind — is that it costs you something. Every single time.

It costs you your own self respect. The quiet internal knowledge that you didn't show up as yourself. That you chose the easy way out over the honest one.

And here's the really interesting part — we usually lie for the same reasons we do most things that don't serve us.

Fear.

Fear of being judged. Fear of consequences. Fear of not being liked, accepted, loved if people knew the real version of events.

Marisa Peer says we spend our lives trying to avoid pain and move towards pleasure. Lying feels like the shortcut. But the long game always catches up.

In therapy I create a space where you don't have to lie. Not to me. And more importantly — not to yourself.

Because the most damaging lies are never the ones we tell other people.

They're the ones we tell ourselves. 💛

Beverley Sandler — 4TherapyUK — Prestwich, Bury, Whitefield & Radcliffe

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