I attended a fundraising luncheon last week where the guest speaker was Dr. Brene Brown. She has spent years researching vulnerability and other aspects of human emotional well being. It was fascinating listening to her views and her studies but it was her take on our vulnerability that really resonated with me.
I always considered being vulnerable a “weakness” but that’s not really her take on it at all. It’s what prods us to be brave, to try things that scare us, to make a decision to be strong and that ultimately helps us survive.
Being in a relationship makes us vulnerable. Being in love makes us vulnerable. Going through a break-up or a divorce REALLY makes us feel vulnerable because that “mate” was supposed to be there for us in the good times and the bad. Now we’re all alone and it’s scary.
What makes you feel vulnerable? For me it’s being alone and totally responsible for myself. However can I take that and use it as motivation to prove that I really can be strong? Absolutely. It has forced me to learn to trust in myself and my decisions. That trust did not come quickly, but it did come.
Use those feelings of being inadequate to motivate yourself to trust in your strengths. Prove to your family and friends that you are a strong and capable person who doesn’t need a man to tell you what to do, how to do it and when to do it. Look at those feelings of vulnerability as a way to learn to trust in yourself again.
Having doubts is normal, but letting them rule your world is not OK. Be strong, be brave – rock on!!
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I saw Brene on Ted Talks. She is amazing!!!! What luncheon was it? I wish I would have gone!