Taking Steps to Connect Is All About Accepting Fear
Taking Steps to Connect Is All About Accepting Fear I recently came across a request from a journalist who was asking for ways that people can be "fearless" when trying to connect or make changes in ...
Comfort and Authenticity – Finding the Middle Ground
Comfort and Authenticity - Finding the Middle Ground On the surface, it seems like identifying with who you are and showing that to others should be something that is natural to us. However, this cou ...
No More “Under the Radar”
Stepping out from under the radar can be an enormous risk. Allowing yourself to be noticed for who you are, and what you actually feel, can elicit criticism, judgment, and blame. Therefore, actually a ...
Fear of Vulnerability
Getting vulnerable is often the last thing that we want to do. There is so much emotional risk involved in letting people in on what is going on inside of us. This is the place that we can communicate ...
Laughing and Crying and Vulnerability
The shock of Robin Williams death by apparent suicide still hovers around today. How can people who appear happy be so unhappy on the inside? People put on a facade that they present to the public. We ...
Growing Through Shame
Shame is something that we often try to avoid. Walking through a place of such vulnerability is understandably undesirable, because human beings are naturally quite pain aversive. Our aversion to pain ...