Researcher of vulnerability and shame.
Vulnerability is not weakness. It's the foundation of courage, creativity, change. Weakness is closing yourself off.
We need the courage to live an authentic life, even if others don't like it. Approval is not the same as love.
Wholehearted living is when you are honest about your feelings, your needs, your choices.
I've learned that courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is what you do when you're afraid.
Shame thrives in silence. When we speak it, when we share it with people we love and trust, shame loses its power over us.
Shame is the painful feeling that we're not good enough. Vulnerability is the courage to be ourselves despite the risk of rejection.
Vulnerability is the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.