Show, Don’t Tell
- Keren Levi-Faran
- May 29
- 2 min read
On gestures that reveal more than words and the truths that speak through presence.
The Things You Don’t Say But Still Speak
You say you’re fine.
You say you’ve moved on.
You say it doesn’t matter.
But your hands hesitate.
Your voice drops.
Your body turns away.
And somewhere in the quiet gestures between what you say and what you are, the truth lives.
The Principle Behind the Page
Writers know:
If you want a reader to feel something, you don’t explain it.
You show it.
You don’t write, “She was grieving.”
You write: “She stood by the door she never opened.”
The power is in the details.
Not the declaration.
Because the truth doesn’t need an announcement.
Just presence.
And In Life, We Often Reverse It
We say: “I’m strong.” “I’m over it.” “I’m fine.”
But our bodies?
They narrate differently.
A sudden silence.
The way you double-check the lock.
The breath you hold before speaking their name.
These are your real sentences written in movement, not words.
And the ones who know how to read them?
They’ve seen you even when you said nothing.
Where Your Truth Is Moving Quietly
What do I do: small, physical, habitual that says more than I admit?
Is there a feeling I’ve described but never really expressed?
Where in my life am I hiding behind words instead of letting the moment show itself?
“No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”
Lewis Carroll
You don’t need to say it clearly for it to be felt.
The way you stood.
The way you didn’t answer.
The way you smoothed the paper one more time than needed.
That was already a sentence.
Sometimes, the most honest part of you is the one you didn’t notice until someone else did.
You’re invited to meet yourself in motion.
Download the Show, Don’t Tell practice, and begin where your body speaks first.
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