The Truth About Telling the Truth: For Truth Tellers (birth/baby)

The Truth about Telling the Truth for Truth Tellers by Carla Hartley of Trust Birth.

* Remember that people don't want to know what they don't know if they can remain ignorant and unchanged. People are very resistant to new ideas because that means change.

* Change isn't just scary----it involves the risk of being wrong or having been wrong. People would sometimes choose to be uninformed rather than to have been wrong. Being closed to the possibility of being wrong is our attempt at risk management.

* We have all been wrong at some time in our life. It can be humiliating or humbling, depending on our acceptance of the fact. If we really look at what we have let others decide FOR us when we did not educate ourselves, it can be humiliating and we all dislike humiliation. OR we could recognize the great potential in being humbled by the truth....and changed by the truth....for the better.

* One of the reasons that I am so dedicated to telling the truth is WHO I am telling it for. I want to speak up for the babies.....and their mammas....and their daddies....and their future children....see what I mean? BirthTruth changes lives forever, not for just one day or one idea or conversation.

* BirthTruth can be repackaged in so many ways or served in small bites, but I never again want to be guilty of denying the truth. If we are not telling the truth, we are promoting the lies.

• Telling the Truth about Birth is, in my opinion, the most loving thing we can do for everyone involved....and if we don't tell the truth about birth, who will?

"The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is."
- Winston Churchill

Kelly this is really interesting, I like what Birth Truth does. Problem I face is I had an easy time and face being told I was just one of the lucky ones. It's hard to get people to realise that sometimes luck is luck, but often (WRT birth and breastfeeding) it can be as much about education as anything else.