Being vulnerable - you ready for it?
Has anyone read this book? This is the next book in our book club that we just started a couple of weeks ago. And I'll tell you what, Brene Brown, you go girl. You keep it real while being right on point and totally relatable. The most recent chapter is on vulnerability myths and man, it's just so interesting. It's so interesting the things that we learned as a child are so different compared to the things I've been able to learn as an adult. Gosh I just remember being so scared as a kid. Scared I was going to do the wrong thing, scared people were going to make fun of me, scared that I wasn't going to be good enough. But at the same time I did take steps of courage.. I did well in school and I tried to be kind to those around me. Today vulnerability is huge for me. Getting sober, I had to get vulnerable. I had to look at myself and just life in general. This book tells me to life, to be human, that's being vulnerable and to be okay with that. Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Some days I think, Should I post another video? Should I write another blog post? Should I post on my Facebook page? Who is this even reaching? And should I really be putting all this stuff out there? But you know what just for today I'm going to keep doing it. Because what I'm learning in life is I want to keep it real. I want to tell you about my experiences and show you my experiences and being as vulnerable as possible because I think that is the true bases of how to have connections with people. Real true blue amazing connections with people which is something I found since getting sober with a lot of the people in my life today. And I just get to really be me and be okay with that and tell you what I'm scared and then maybe you can relate too. Because maybe you're scared too? But what are we all really afraid of and why is it so important? Why is it so important to not tell people the real deal? Why is it so important to look so perfect and thinking that's going to be the way to influence people? The way I look at it is I'm going to tell you all about the messy, amazing, exhausting, scary, incredible stuff in my life (even sober) and that's how I'm going to get to you. One soul connection to another.