People don’t want the “truth” reflected back in some abstract way. They want their experience to be recognized. They want their perspective to matter. Shifting my thinking from mirrors to mirroring has been a big mental leap. It is the shift from showing people the truth to helping people feel seen. And in the current landscape, feeling “seen” might actually look like the reverse of transparency. It is someone feeling like their perspective is understood, but is not being held against them.