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Blocks to Speaking Your Truth

December 20, 20257 min read

Clearing Blocks to Speaking Your Truth | Energy Clearing Session

Your voice matters. Your truth deserves to be expressed. Your authentic perspective has value.

Yet for many people, speaking truth feels dangerous, impossible, or wrong. Words get stuck in the throat. Truth stays locked inside. Authentic expression feels like a risk too great to take.

This isn't just shyness, introversion, or lack of confidence. It's deep programming that makes authentic expression feel unsafe - programming installed through experiences of being punished for speaking, beliefs that your truth doesn't matter, and fear of the consequences of being authentically seen and heard.

Understanding Blocks to Speaking Your Truth

Blocks to authentic expression operate at multiple levels:

Throat Chakra Level: The throat chakra is the energy center of communication and authentic expression. When it's blocked, constricted, or shut down, speaking your truth feels physically difficult or impossible.

Nervous System Level: If your nervous system learned that speaking up brings danger, it will activate fear responses when you try to express yourself authentically. Your body literally goes into protection mode to prevent you from speaking.

Belief Level: Deep beliefs about whether your voice matters, whether your truth is valid, whether you have the right to speak - these beliefs determine whether authentic expression feels possible.

Trauma Level: Experiences where you spoke your truth and were punished, shamed, rejected, or hurt create wounds that make future authentic expression feel dangerous.

Relationship Level: Programming about maintaining peace, not disappointing others, or keeping people comfortable can override your need for authentic expression.

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Common Blocks to Speaking Your Truth

Fear of Judgment: Deep fear that if you speak your truth, you'll be judged, criticized, or rejected. This fear keeps authentic expression locked inside to avoid potential judgment.

Belief Your Truth Doesn't Matter: Programming that what you think, feel, or believe isn't important or valid. This belief makes speaking up feel pointless.

Fear of Conflict: Anxiety that authentic expression will create conflict, upset others, or damage relationships. This fear prioritizes peace over truth.

People-Pleasing Patterns: Deep programming that your job is to make others comfortable, even at the expense of your own authentic expression. Speaking truth might disappoint or upset others, so you stay silent.

Shame Around Your Voice: Feeling that your authentic voice, perspective, or way of expressing is somehow wrong, too much, not enough, or unacceptable.

Past Punishment: Memories (conscious or subconscious) of times you spoke your truth and were punished, shamed, rejected, or hurt. These experiences created fear around future expression.

Authority Conditioning: Programming that you shouldn't question authority, speak up to power, or express disagreement with those in positions of authority.

Gender Conditioning: Cultural programming about who gets to speak, whose voice matters, and what's acceptable expression based on gender.

How These Blocks Manifest

Physical Symptoms:

  • Throat tightness or constriction when trying to speak

  • Voice becoming small or shaky

  • Words getting stuck

  • Feeling like you can't breathe when speaking truth

  • Chronic throat issues or voice problems

Behavioral Patterns:

  • Staying silent when you have something to say

  • Agreeing when you actually disagree

  • Minimizing or softening your truth

  • Speaking around the issue instead of directly

  • Waiting for permission to speak

  • Only expressing truth in "safe" contexts

Emotional Experiences:

  • Anxiety or panic when considering speaking up

  • Shame about your authentic voice or perspective

  • Anger at yourself for not speaking

  • Resentment toward others for not hearing you

  • Grief about truth that's never been expressed

Relationship Impacts:

  • Inauthentic connections based on what you think others want to hear

  • Resentment in relationships where you can't be authentic

  • Feeling unseen or unheard

  • Attracting people who don't value your voice

  • Losing yourself in relationships

What This Clearing Releases

This energy clearing session addresses blocks to speaking your truth at their roots:

Throat Chakra Clearing: Opening and clearing the throat chakra, releasing constriction and blocks that prevent authentic expression.

Fear of Judgment: Clearing the deep fear of being judged, criticized, or rejected for speaking your truth. Releasing the need for everyone to approve of what you say.

"My Truth Doesn't Matter" Programming: Clearing the belief that your thoughts, feelings, and perspectives aren't important or valid. Activating the knowing that your voice matters.

Trauma from Being Silenced: Healing wounds from times you spoke and were punished, shamed, or rejected. Releasing the fear these experiences created.

People-Pleasing Patterns: Clearing the programming that you're responsible for others' comfort at the expense of your authentic expression.

Shame Around Your Voice: Releasing shame about your authentic way of expressing, your perspective, or your truth. Clearing the belief that your voice is somehow wrong.

Fear of Conflict: Addressing the anxiety that authentic expression will create conflict or damage relationships. Clearing the belief that you have to choose between truth and connection.

Authority and Cultural Conditioning: Releasing programming about who gets to speak, whose voice matters, and what's acceptable expression.

How to Use This Clearing

Find a comfortable space where you feel safe. You might want to place your hand on your throat as you listen, bringing awareness to your throat chakra.

You don't need to consciously identify every block or remember every time you were silenced. Your system knows what's been preventing authentic expression.

Simply remain open and receptive as the clearing works.

During or after the clearing, you might experience:

  • Sensations in your throat (tightness releasing, warmth, tingling)

  • Emotional releases (tears, anger, grief)

  • Memories of times you were silenced

  • Desire to speak or express something

  • Feeling of opening or expansion in throat area

  • Relief or lightness

  • Nothing obvious (clearing still happens)

After the clearing, honor whatever your system needs. You might want to speak, sing, journal, or simply rest in the cleared space.

What Changes After Clearing

As blocks to speaking your truth clear, you'll notice:

Physical Opening: Your throat feels more open. Speaking feels easier. Your voice sounds stronger or more authentic.

Reduced Fear: The paralyzing fear of speaking up decreases. You can express yourself even when some fear is present.

Your Voice Matters: Deep knowing that your truth is valid and deserves expression. Your voice matters as much as anyone else's.

Authentic Expression Feels Possible: You can share your real thoughts, feelings, and perspectives without overwhelming anxiety or shame.

Boundaries Strengthen: You can say no, disagree, or express different perspectives without guilt or fear.

Relationships Shift: Some relationships deepen as you become more authentic. Others may fall away if they required your silence.

Personal Power Increases: Speaking your truth is an act of personal power. As you reclaim your voice, you reclaim your power.

Practicing Authentic Expression

After using this clearing:

Start small: Practice speaking truth in low-stakes situations. Build confidence gradually.

Notice the fear: When fear arises around speaking, acknowledge it but speak anyway. The fear will decrease with practice.

Honor your voice: Your truth doesn't need to be eloquent or perfect. It just needs to be authentic.

Set boundaries: Practice saying no, expressing disagreement, or stating your needs.

Express in safe spaces first: Find people or contexts where authentic expression feels safer to practice.

Celebrate when you speak: Acknowledge each time you express authentic truth. Reinforce the new pattern.

Integration and Ongoing Work

This clearing can be used regularly as you develop your authentic voice and clear deeper layers of blocks.

You might want to use this clearing:

  • Before situations where you need to speak your truth

  • When old fear patterns around expression return

  • As regular maintenance for throat chakra health

  • When deeper layers of silencing trauma surface

  • To support ongoing development of authentic expression

Related clearings that support this work:

  • Personal Power and Confidence

  • Fear of Judgment and Criticism

  • People-Pleasing Patterns

  • Throat Chakra Activation and Clearing

Ready to Speak Your Truth?

You don't have to keep your truth locked inside. You don't have to stay silent to keep others comfortable. You don't have to live with the pain of unexpressed authenticity.

This clearing releases the blocks that have kept your voice small and your truth hidden, allowing authentic expression to emerge.

Your voice matters. Your truth deserves to be heard. Your authentic expression has value.

Press play when you're ready to clear blocks and speak your truth.


Robin helps people clear their old beliefs and negative energetic patterns with energy clearing, Neuro-Linguistic Programming and hypnosis.

Robin Yates

Robin helps people clear their old beliefs and negative energetic patterns with energy clearing, Neuro-Linguistic Programming and hypnosis.

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