How can I allow myself to be vulnerable and let people help me?

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Dr. Julie Hanks

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 734 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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In this episode, Dr. Julie Hanks coaches Jenny and addresses the question, “How do I embrace vulnerability and let people help me?” We all grow up with wounds because we have human parents. When we don’t get validation for who we are, what we think, and what we feel growing up, it can show up in adulthood as not feeling good enough. During this episode, Dr. Hanks guides Jenny through beginning to identify where feelings of insecurity may be coming from, and how to give “little Jenny” the...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Ask Dr. Julie Hanks, a safe place for healing conversations that educate and empower you to prioritize
0:23.4	your dreams, revolutionize your family, and personalize your faith. I'm your host, Dr. Julie Hanks,
0:29.8	a psychotherapist and coach offering online courses and programs to help women all over the world
0:35.5	heal themselves and their relationships.
0:38.2	Join me here every week as I coach a listener through a specific challenge and empower them
0:42.6	with tools to find healing.
0:44.8	I'm so excited to have Jenny with me on the show today.
0:48.0	Welcome, Jenny.
0:49.4	Hi.
0:49.8	Thank you for having me.
0:51.2	So what is your question for me today?
0:53.7	Okay, so this is maybe loaded.
0:55.5	I'm so sorry, but here we go.
0:57.3	So I'm wondering, how do I embrace vulnerability and let people help me?
1:04.7	So a little bit of backstory on that.
1:07.0	I'm afraid that if they see me, the whole me with my flaws, that I won't be good enough.
1:12.5	And I also feel that like sometimes I'm not worthy of the compassion and care they'll offer
1:18.9	if I am vulnerable.
1:20.6	Sometimes it's easier just to be the funny girl, you know, who always jumps in to help other people.
1:25.2	So that's my question. Yeah. That's a really good one. And I think
1:30.9	it's a common feeling that a lot of women or a lot of people share. So tell me what comes up for you
1:39.2	when when you have asked for help in the past? I ask very few people for help.
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