🤫 Why Our Secrets Keep Us Sick 🤒✨

🧏‍♀️ Let’s be real: secrets are like that leftover burrito you hid in the back of the fridge 🍤➡️🥶. You thought you were saving it for later, but now it’s growing its own ecosystem and plotting world domination. 🌍🦠 Keeping secrets works the same way; what starts as a tiny “no one needs to know this” moment becomes a festering swamp monster in your psyche. 🐉💭 🧠 The Psychology of Hidden Stuff: 💫 Secrets demand energy. You’re constantly running mental antivirus software 🖥️🛡️ to keep them from leaking. 😬 That energy drain shows up as stress, anxiety, and even physical illness. (Yes, your body keeps the receipts 📜💪). 📝 Studies show people who carry big secrets report lower well being and more health issues. Basically, your secrets are freeloaders living rent free in your nervous system. 🏚️😤 📖 Scripture’s Take: “You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:32) 🙌 Proverbs 28:13 reminds us: “Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.” Translation: secrets = spiritual constipation 🚽😬. Confession = fiber. 🌾✨ 💁‍♀️ The Humor in It All: 🤫 Secrets are like glitter. You think you’ve cleaned them up, but they show up at the worst possible times. ✨😳 Or like trying to hold in a sneeze during a Zoom call. 🤧💻 Everyone knows something’s off, but you’re pretending you’re fine. 📲 And let’s not forget: secrets are basically emotional spam emails. 📩🚫 You keep clicking “ignore,” but they’re clogging your inbox until you finally hit “unsubscribe.” 🌱 The Healing Move: When we share our truth we release the pressure valve. 🕊️💬 Suddenly, the swamp monster shrinks back into a manageable puddle. 🪣💦 Vulnerability is medicine and humor is the spoonful of sugar that helps it go down. 🍯🎬 📜Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. (Matthew 10:28) 🙏 Prayer for Healing from Hidden Secrets: Holy One of Truth and Light ✨, You see the corners of our hearts where we’ve tucked away secrets like dusty boxes in the attic 🗃️🕸️. We confess that what we hide begins to weigh us down, making our spirits cough like old engines 🚗💨. Today, we choose freedom. We choose to laugh at the lies that told us secrecy was safety 😂🔓. We choose to open the windows of our souls and let Your fresh air in 🌬️🌞. May our honesty be medicine, our vulnerability be strength, and our laughter be holy therapy. 🩺💪 Transform our hidden pain into wisdom, our silence into song, and our shame into testimony. 🎶📖✨ Bless us with courage to speak truth in love, to confess without fear, and to walk in the radiant joy of transparency. 🌈💡 In Jesus’ precious name, Amen, Ameen, Ase, and So Be It. ✨🕊️ 🌸 Love & Light Affirmation: ✨ I release the weight of hidden truths. ✨ My honesty heals me and uplifts others. ✨ I choose freedom, laughter, and light. ✨ May my openness be a blessing to all. 📚 Sources; Brown, Brené. The Gifts of Imperfection. Hazelden Publishing, 2010. Pennebaker, James W. Opening Up: The Healing Power of Expressing Emotions. Guilford Press, 1997. The Holy Bible, New International Version. Zondervan, 2011. Kelly, Anita E., and Kevin J. McKillop. “Consequences of Revealing Personal Secrets.” Psychological Bulletin, vol. 120, no. 3, 1996, pp. 450–465.