Quotes About Vulnerability

What's the greater risk? Letting go of what people think or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am? Wholehearted living is about engaging in our lives from a place of worthiness.

my favorite quote about darkness and compassion from Pema Chödrön, who writes: "Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

The delta between I am a screwup and I screwed up may look small, but in fact it's huge.

The adults I interviewed who were raised by parents who used shame as a primary parenting tool had much more difficulty believing in their worthiness than the participants who experienced shame occasionally and were able to talk about it with their parents.

The most valuable and important things in my life came to me when I cultivated the courage to be vulnerable, imperfect, and self-compassionate.

Failure can become nourishment if we are willing to get curious, show up vulnerable and human, and put rising strong into practice.

Where we are on our journey of living and loving with our whole hearts is a much stronger indicator of parenting success than anything we can learn from how-to books.

them—we can only love others as much as we love ourselves. Shame, blame,

childhood experiences of shame change who we are, how we think about ourselves, and our sense of self-worth.

Não importa o que eu faça e quanto ainda fique por fazer, eu sou bom o bastante. Significa deitar todas as noites pensando: Sim, sou imperfeito e vulnerável, às vezes fico com medo, mas isso não muda o fato de que sou corajoso e digno de amor e de aceitação. Os dois primeiros livros são como um "chamado

Heroics is often about putting our life on the line. Ordinary courage is about putting our vulnerability on the line. In today's world, that's pretty extraordinary.

Miriam Greenspan, a psychotherapist and the author of Healing Through the Dark Emotions, was interviewed by Jungian therapist Barbara Platek in The Sun Magazine.

When receiving feedback, we can identify a value-supporting behavior or a piece of self-talk to help in the moment. Here's mine: When I'm receiving feedback, and I want to stay aligned with my value of courage, I say to myself, "I'm brave enough to listen.

courage to develop that potential.

Being onstage is comfortable for me because it's my work, but put me in the middle of a cocktail party and you'll find me with a frozen smile, wishing I could curl up under a table in the fetal position.

Think how powerful it might have been for Elizabeth to hear, "You had such courage to apply for that promotion and even more courage to be honest about how much you wanted it. I'm so proud to be your daughter/son/mentor/friend/parent.

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it—it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy. The most dangerous thing to do after a shaming experience is hide or bury our story. When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes. I

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear." We can't rise strong when we're on the run.

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The third thing I repeat to myself, even if the person who is offering feedback is skilled and it's a productive conversation, but I'm still reeling because it's hard to hear, is "This is the path to mastery, this is the path to mastery," or "These people care about this as much as I do.

There is no courage without vulnerability.

Rather than building trust by acknowledging, affirming, and believing, we shut people down when we experience discomfort or disinterest, or when we take over the narrative and make it about us or our perception of what happened.

Cynicism and sarcasm often mask anger, fear, feelings of inadequacy, and even despair. They're a safe way for us to send out an emotional trial balloon, and if it doesn't go over well, we make it a joke and make you feel stupid for thinking it was ever something different.

Cultivating hope Practicing critical awareness Letting go of numbing and taking the edge off vulnerability, discomfort, and pain