🕵️‍♀️ Lies, Love, and Lemonade: How to Thrive Without the Truth🥤🍿

💁‍♀️ Let’s be honest, well, as honest as we can be in a blog about lies. People we love lie to us. 🤥 Not always maliciously. Sometimes it’s just a sprinkle of deception, like “I didn’t eat your leftovers” (they did) or “I’m fine” (they’re not). Other times, it’s a full blown Broadway production of denial, starring your cousin, your ex, and that one friend who swears they “just forgot” 🙄 🤔 So why do they lie? And how do we move forward when the truth is playing hide and seek in the Bermuda Triangle? 🤡 Why They Lie: A Brief Tour of Emotional Gymnastics: 🤸‍♀️ 😬 Fear of Consequences: They think the truth will make you cry, scream, or turn into a spiritual ninja with a prayer card and a grudge. 🥋 🙅 Self Preservation: They’re protecting their ego like it’s the last avocado at Trader Joe’s. 🥑 😤 Avoiding Conflict: Because apparently, “I ghosted you because I was overwhelmed” sounds better than “I’m emotionally constipated.” 💩👻 🪄 Habitual Houdinis: Some folks lie like it’s cardio. They don’t even break a sweat. 🏋‍♂️ ❤️‍🩹 And let’s not forget the classic: “I didn’t want to hurt you.” Translation: “I didn’t want to deal with your reaction, so I outsourced honesty to the void.” 🫤 🧘‍♀️ How to Move Forward When the Truth Is on Sabbatical: 🍵 Here’s the tea: You don’t need their truth to heal. You need your own clarity, your own peace, and maybe a playlist that screams “I’m thriving, not crying.” 🎶 1. 🧠 Trust Your Gut, Not Their Script: If your intuition is side eyeing their story like it’s a suspicious casserole, believe it. Your spirit knows when something smells off, even if it’s wrapped in a smile and a “you’re overreacting.” 👀 2. 🪞 Validate Yourself: You don’t need their confession to confirm your experience. You lived it. You felt it. You survived it. That’s enough evidence for the emotional court of healing. ⚖️ 3. 🧹 Cleanse Your Energy, Not Their Reputation: Stop trying to make them look better in your healing narrative. You’re not a PR firm for people who lied to you. Light a candle, say a prayer, and let the ancestors handle the rest.⛑️ 4. 🪷 Choose Peace Over Closure: Closure is a luxury item. Peace is a necessity. You can move on without the truth, without the apology, and without the dramatic monologue you rehearsed in the shower. 🚿 5. 💅 Rebrand Yourself as Unbothered™ You’re not bitter. You’re better. You’re not petty. You’re poetic. You’re not waiting for the truth you’re building a life so fabulous, even lies feel irrelevant. 😉 🕊️ Here’s a bold spiritually grounded prayer that calls out deception while anchoring our souls in divine truth and protection: 🙏Prayer for Discernment in the Face of Deception: God of Truth, You who see through masks and motives, Who exposes what’s hidden and heals what’s harmed; I come to You weary from the weight of falsehoods. From gaslighters and gossipers, from manipulators in holy robes, from lies dressed as love. Sharpen my discernment like a sword. Let me recognize wolves, even in sheeps clothing. Let me trust Your voice above their volume. Let me walk in wisdom, not woundedness. I release the need to prove my purity. I release the shame of being deceived. I reclaim my power, my peace, and my prophetic clarity. Cover me in truth. Surround me with integrity. And let every lie fall powerless at Your feet. In Jesus’ name, Amen. Ameen. Ase. And so it is. 🪬 🌸 Love & Light Affirmation for the Spiritually Unbothered: “I release the need for closure and embrace the power of clarity. I trust my intuition, protect my peace, and let the truth find me when it’s ready or not. Either way, I’m good.” 🔮 So next time someone lies to you, smile like you know the plot twist. Because you do. And you’re not waiting for the truth you’re writing your own ending, with glitter, grace, and a dash of holy side eye. ✨️ 📚 Sources: Ekman, Paul. Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage. W. W. Norton & Company, 2009. Meyer, Pamela. Liespotting: Proven Techniques to Detect Deception. St. Martin’s Press, 2010. Ford, Debbie. The Secret of the Shadow: The Power of Owning Your Story. HarperOne, 2002. Catechism of the Catholic Church. Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2nd ed., 1997. Brown, Brené. The Gifts of Imperfection. Hazelden Publishing, 2010. Lupyan, Gary, and Daniel Swingley. “Linguistic Labels Shape Perceptual Categories.” Cognitive Psychology, vol. 61, no. 4, 2010, pp. 274–301. Saxe, Rebecca. “The Right Temporoparietal Junction and the Detection of Intentionality.” Neuropsychologia, vol. 44, no. 13, 2006, pp. 2435–2447.