Do you light up when your kids are coming in the room or do you become the instant critic?
Maybe stories are just data with a soul.
When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose.
Hope is not an emotion; it’s a way of thinking or a cognitive process.
Even to me the issue of “stay small, sweet, quiet, and modest” sounds like an outdated problem, but the truth is that women still run into those demands whenever we find and use our voices.
Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.
Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.
In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone’s afraid to fail. As long as we’re afraid to fail, we’ll never come up with the big, bold ideas we need to solve these problems.
I’ve found what makes children happy doesn’t always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.
Numb the dark and you numb the light.
Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage.
Feeling vulnerable, imperfect, and afraid is human. It’s when we lose our capacity to hold space for these struggles that we become dangerous.
When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding.
Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.
We are hardwired to connect with others, it’s what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and without it there is suffering.
We’re a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children.
Ads sell a great deal more than products. They sell values, images, and concepts of success and worth.
Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in.
The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.
There’s nothing more daring than showing up, putting ourselves out there and letting ourselves be seen.