Improv

You should have seen have me!  We did a few silly but lower-key activities first like pointing at someone and responding with a "yes" and then throwing an imaginary knife between us.  

But then he asked who had done a monologue.  I, of course, did not raise my hand.  Introverted me who isn't a fan of the spotlight tries not to put myself in a position where I'm giving a monologue.  In a circle of all 27 of us, he started as the person in the middle.  The instructions were that the person in the middle would give a monologue somehow remotely connected to something the previous person said and then anyone could tag them out and give their own monologue.

I wasn't the first.  I'm not quite that bold.  But I was in the first third.  As soon as someone said something about flying like a bird, I stepped right in and talked about the birds that sang outside my window waking me up in the morning.  And before I knew it, I had given my first monologue!

I don't know if I was any good or if I just rambled but that wasn't the point.  It was to get out there, step out of my comfort zone, let loose a bit.  And I did that!

I may not be able to make any sense of what my ex did to me and I am still struggling to accept it (something I'm going to try therapy again to work through) but, if I can give a monologue to a group of strangers, I can do anything!