Hello everyone and welcome to Coaches Corner. In this episode I'm going to

speak to you about vulnerability. Vulnerability is something that I talk about a lot on this show,

you hear my callers being very vulnerable with me and with you,

and it's definitely a strength that we as human beings have to be vulnerable with other people.

And vulnerability doesn't mean just crying all the time or exposing our deepest, darkest wounds or having to share the most intimate secretive

parts of ourselves, it also doesn't mean just talking about the quote unquote bad or difficult things

in our life.

Vulnerability is really about intimacy.

It's about allowing another person to see us.

If you think about intimacy,'s in to me see and not just see where we're struggling

our perceived weaknesses pains or challenges we're going through but also seeing all the amazing things about us.

It's also about sharing everything in our life that's amazing.

Vulnerability is incredibly important to our emotional and mental and I think even physical

well-being but what's even more important is who were vulnerable with.

The reason why so many of us have trouble

with vulnerability and intimacy

is because we probably had a situation

where we exposed ourselves, we shared something with someone, we expressed ourselves, and then it didn't go well.

We got rejected, we got ridiculed, we got told something that made us feel less than,

and so we decided, oh wow, it's not safe to show myself so I'm just

going to keep my feelings inside I'm not going to be too big or too much I'm just

going to try to blend in and really not expose myself.

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