Authentic & Vulnerable

Choose to be authentic & vulnerable in safe community.

It is a choice.

To enter into being vulnerable.

To open up our emotions, fears, insecurities, & stories to other individuals.

To allow our authentic self be known.

There is risk.

Will I be seen, validated, & acknowledged?

Or will what I share be dismissed, minimized, judged, or invalidated?

Will I be rejected?

For true connection & vulnerability, I believe mutual reciprocity of open vulnerability is necessary.

Both entering into sharing.

Active listening with empathy, compassion, & understanding present

Will we give space to each other?

To sit in the hard spaces but also the joyous spaces together too.

To celebrate & cheer each other on also.

Safe community.

This looks like others who acknowledge you and what you share as valid.

Who uphold confidentiality as crucial.

There is risk but also potential great reward.

To be connected, not alone, supported.

To have community.

It takes courage to enter into it, but it is incredibly worth it.

Be brave and look for others who may be that safe community to share in. It may take time to find them. Keep looking until you do, friend.

You aren’t meant to do life alone or face your hard things by yourself.

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Be blessed today friends!