Years ago when I was attending the Metaphysical School. One of the first things we did in class was to write out our "Secret Sin." After it was written we tore it up and the teacher passed around a waste basket and collected the scrapes of paper. It's amazing what a release that was and a great way to start new cycle of our life and spiritual path.

This morning I came upon this from a blog. Sharing the same idea. Perhaps you might want to let go of something you've been holding onto, which might be blocking you from experiencing your wholeness?
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https://www.intentblog.com/archives/2008/04/secrets.html

Grace Wilson - April 03, 2008

My friends gave me this book about a year ago; I can't remember the name. The author asked for people around the country to send him anonymous postcards containing whatever secret they wanted to tell. The book is full of those postcards.

For instance, a preacher’s wife of many years admits she’s never believed in God.
A man had gay sex at summer camp when he was a boy.
A mother admits she’s never told her children she loves them.

People’s secrets are fascinating. Most of the ones I read, while I'm sure they were devastating to the ones keeping them locked up, don't seem so bad to the outside observer.

Years and years ago I attended a seminar at the Chopra Center where, after several days of meditating and getting in touch with ourselves we had to stand in two concentric circles in the middle of the room, each circle of people facing the other circle of people. Whoever you were standing across from, you had to tell one of your deepest, darkest secrets. And then one of the circles would move and you'd be facing another partner and you'd have to tell them your secret, too.

At first, everyone was revealing “bogus” secrets (I cheated on a test in high school, that sort of thing), but as we got going, people were opening up and revealing the more emotionally painful ones. All in all, you probably whispered a secret to ten different people in the group, and you heard ten as well. There was no judgment as everyone was in the same position, and getting the secrets out disarmed them to some degree.

We give our secrets so much power. Why do they scare us so much?