Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability
- It’s all about human connection: it’s what gives live meaning
- Shame: the idea that if something is exposed one would be excluded
- You must be able to be comfortable with who you are, beyond who you think you should be, to be connected.
- Those who felt they belong, felt worthy of belonging and showed:
- Courage: to tell the story of who you are with your whole heart
- Compassion: have compassion with myself, and then with others
- Connection: result of authenticity, let go of who I think I am, to let myself really be
- Also
- Willingness to say I love you first
- Willingness to invest in a relationship that may or may not work out
- Feeling these are fundamental
- Vulnerability is the core of shame, fear, and struggle for worthiness and also the birthplace of joy, creativity, love, and belonging.
- I challenge myself to:
- To let myself be seen, deeply seen, vulnerably seen; to love with my whole heart, even though there's no guarantee -- and that's really hard
- To practice gratitude and joy in those moments of terror, when I’m wondering, "Can I love you this much? Can I believe in this this passionately? Can I be this fierce about this?" just to be able to stop and, instead of catastrophizing what might happen, to say, "I'm just so grateful, because to feel this vulnerable means I'm alive."
- Probably the most important, is to believe that I'm enough.
- When we work from a place, that says, "I'm enough," then
- we stop screaming and start listening,
- we're kinder and gentler to the people around us
- we're kinder and gentler to ourselves.
Wow! I have loved all everything you have posted, but this talk really resonated with me. The difference is dramatic between the ends of the spectrum of what vulnerability can create. It is interesting to think that people may ping-pong between either end depending on where they are at that given moment, at least I feel that I have been there before. Practicing gratitude is really important: gratitude to others and, more importantly, to ourselves. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteJen, you inspire me in how I perceive that you pursue authentically your goals. Your social media diet is but one example of how you are aware of the underlying influences in your life, and what you can do to control them. :) This Vulnerability article really struck emotional accord with me, too: assertion of my successes and motivation to reach even further.
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