The feeling that holding us back to engage with what we want fully is “Vulnerability”.
When we talk about vulnerability, our mind often associates with exposed, uncertainty, danger, emotional, weakness, etc. etc. Our mind is good at protecting us from entering into the uncomfortable zone. Hence, it will create a behaviour of protecting us from being vulnerable.
Common behaviours that prevent us from being vulnerable are disengaged, pushing and provoking with criticism or respond with anger. The deep fear we all have of being wrong, of being belittled and feeling less than, is what stops us taking the very risks required to move us forward.
If we want to reclaim the essential emotional part of our lives and reignite our passion and purpose, we have to learn how to own and engage with our vulnerability and how to feel the emotions that come with it.
In order to be vulnerable, we need to develop resilience to shame.
SHAME is the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore, unworthy of love and belonging.
Shame is tough to talk about. But the conversation isn’t nearly as dangerous as what we’re creating with our silence! We all experience shame! We’re all afraid to talk about it. And, the less we talk about it, the more we have it.
For example: because of how we were raised or how we approach the world, we have knowingly or unknowingly associated our self-worth to our product or art is…
