Quotes About Vulnerability

If you are drowning in a sea your regular people are not equipped to swim in, if what you need is deeply rooted and requires the care of a professional, nothing is more courageous than saying this out loud and moving toward your own healing. As I mentioned earlier, the failure to ask for help when needed tends to perpetuate self-neglect much more than self-reliance.

Cloud and Townsend suggest two questions to regularly ask the closest people in your life: What do I do that draws you toward me? What do I do that pushes you away?

occurs, it means we can see through your pants. It's too

When church is less like a family and more like an enterprise, its leaders act less like pastors and more like commanders. This puts everyone in danger—the leaders and the people. Spiritual abuse thrives where pastors are untouchable and people are commodities. No one intends this, but absolute power corrupts in every human environment.

The only relief is being genuine at all times with all people, and if you think that is also hard, you are correct, ma'am. But at least it is honest. At least it is whole and true. At least you don't have to adjust the station according to the passengers.

My best advice is just to show up and be truthful. Be the kind of friend you are hoping for.

Thank you, Daylight and Rearview Mirror, for bringing to light the long, wiry chin hairs I missed during my morning tweeze session. You also exposed my eyebrows as an absolute tragedy. I have enough undetected facial hair to qualify me as a Sasquatch,

Face your issues with courage, sister, because truth and love win, and you have both those cards to play.

We would be wise to take more of our cues from the beasts and babies. All

unwilling to engage or be present in life for fear of failing or not being loved or whatever load we're carrying around deep down.

Trying to protect yourself from your fears protects you from experiencing a fully evolved and juicy life.

You're here. I'm here. I love you. I'm going to pee all over the floor about it.

The people closest to you have the most to lose by losing you so they are the most resistant to you changing.

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She can never tell him what she started to say: that we come to love those who save us. For although Anna does believe this is true, the word that stuck in her throat was not save but shame.

I was still too young to know that there is no such thing as love without trust. There is only obsession and co-dependence.

The strange thing about bullies is that if you take their abuse, it never ends. But once you get the balls to stand up to them, they respect you and move on to a weaker target. I never heard a bitchy word from her again. It was that

More than that, if we were going to continue to date, I wanted him close, so that I could keep my eye on him. I didn't trust him at all. I was still too young to know that there is no such thing as love without trust. There

Uh, you're going to take off your clothes?" she asked. He gave her a grin. "Well, I normally don't sleep in my full regalia." "What do you sleep in?" He couldn't resist. "Nothing.

Babies aren't the only ones who shrivel up if they're not held.

Being a sentinel babbler is a dodgy job—they get picked off much more often than foragers, especially by hawks and owls. But life can be dicey for all babblers.

In fact, we owe the expression "pecking order" to studies of the social relations among chickens by the Norwegian zoologist Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe, who found that pecking orders are ladderlike, with the top rung conferring great privilege in the form of food and safety, and the bottom rung fraught with vulnerability and risk.

There are many stages of grief. It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way -- cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain. I'm a human being, having a human experience in front of the world. I wish it weren't in front of the world. I try really hard to rise above it.

It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way - cracks you open to feeling.