Making Stuff Up

"Say it, don't spray it" was something we used to say to someone who spit on you while talking. As an adult, spitting is not my biggest issue. What matters more to me is when someone doesn't express what they are thinking, and stuff starts to get blown up out of proportion in their head. So, I guess in my adult life, a more appropriate idiom would be, "Express it, don't repress it".

Just this morning, I had a talk with someone who had made up a whole scenario about how she might be perceived negatively by me and the other art director here in camp. She had created a lot of negative thoughts and was expressing them so that we would not think poorly of her. Frankly, I was a bit surprised at how she saw herself through our eyes. We had no such thoughts, and expressing herself to us cleared the air. Her inner dialogue was so much worse than the outcome of her outer dialogue.

What conversation have you been avoiding? What are you making up about it? What bold step will you take towards expressing yourself fully to the one you are sidestepping?