Brene Brown: el poder de la vulnerabilidad (subtitulos español)

jpcastro
28 Jun 201120:50

Summary

TLDREl orador comparte su experiencia como investigadora narradora, explorando la conexión y la vulnerabilidad en la vida cotidiana. Descubre que la vergüenza, el miedo a la desconexión, y la vulnerabilidad son barreras para el amor y la pertenencia. A través de su investigación, revela cómo los seres humanos pueden vivir con valentía, compasión y conexión auténtica, lo que conduce a una sensación de pertenencia y amor propio. Exhorta a la audiencia a abrazar la vulnerabilidad y creer en su valía inherente para encontrar la alegría y la creatividad.

Takeaways

  • 🗣️ La habilidad para contar historias es fundamental para conectar con otros y transmitir conocimientos.
  • 🧠 La percepción de que si no se puede medir algo, no existe, es un error común que limita la comprensión de conceptos abstractos como la conexión humana.
  • 🤔 La desconexión emocional es un tema recurrente en la vida moderna, y suele ser más fácil hablar sobre el dolor que sobre el amor o la pertenencia.
  • 🚫 El miedo a la desconexión, que se manifiesta como vergüenza, es una barrera para la conexión y la pertenencia.
  • 🔍 La vulnerabilidad es esencial para la conexión, pero a menudo la rechazamos o tratamos de controlarla.
  • 💔 La vergüenza y la inseguridad sobre nuestra valía son sentimientos universales que afectan nuestra capacidad para conectarnos con otros.
  • 🌟 Los individuos que sienten que tienen valía y pertenencia viven de manera plena y sin temor a ser vulnerables.
  • 🤝 La autenticidad y la capacidad de dejar de lado las apariencias son claves para establecer conexiones auténticas.
  • 🚫 La evitación de la vulnerabilidad a través de la adicción o el anestesiar emocionalmente nos impide sentir también las emociones positivas.
  • 🌱 La aceptación de nuestra imperfección y nuestra capacidad para luchar es fundamental para el desarrollo personal y la resiliencia.
  • 🌐 La autenticidad y la empatía son valores necesarios para mejorar las relaciones personales y profesionales.

Q & A

  • ¿Qué problema enfrentó la oradora al intentar describirse en un volante para un evento?

    -La oradora enfrentó el problema de cómo describirse en un volante sin parecer aburrida y irrelevante. La organizadora del evento estaba indecisa entre llamarla investigadora o narradora, ya que temía que si la llamaba investigadora, la gente no asistiría.

  • ¿Qué conclusión llegó la oradora sobre su identidad como narradora e investigadora?

    -La oradora decidió aceptar el título de 'investigadora narradora', entendiendo que sus historias recopiladas tenían alma y que ella misma era una narradora que recopilaba datos con un alma.

  • ¿Cuál fue el mensaje que le传达了 su profesor de investigación durante su primer año como estudiante de doctorado?

    -El profesor le dijo que si no podía medir algo, entonces no existía. Esto le llevó a cuestionar su enfoque en la investigación y cómo abordar temas complicados.

  • ¿Qué descubrió la oradora acerca de la conexión humana durante su investigación?

    -Descubrió que la conexión es fundamental para la vida, proporcionando propósito y significado. Sin embargo, también encontró que las historias de conexión a menudo se veían interrumpidas por la desconexión.

  • ¿Qué descubrió la oradora acerca del 'miedo a la desconexión' y cómo se relaciona con la vergüenza?

    -Descubrió que el miedo a la desconexión es una forma de vergüenza, una preocupación de que si otras personas conocen ciertas cosas sobre uno, no serán dignos de conexión.

  • ¿Cuál fue el enfoque de la oradora al enfrentarse al concepto de vulnerabilidad?

    -Inicialmente, la oradora odiaba la vulnerabilidad y quería superarla con su 'vara de medición', es decir,希望通过研究来控制 y predecir la vulnerabilidad.

  • ¿Qué hallazgos significativos surgieron de su investigación sobre la gente que vivió con un fuerte sentido de pertenencia y amor propio?

    -Descubrió que estas personas tenían un sentido de valentía, compasión y conexión. Aceptaban su imperfección, eran compasivos con sí mismos y con otros, y estaban dispuestos a dejar ir lo que pensaban que debían ser para ser quienes son.

  • ¿Qué implicaciones tuvo la investigación para la vida personal de la oradora?

    -La investigación llevó a la oradora a una crisis personal, donde tuvo que aceptar la vulnerabilidad como una parte esencial de la vida y no simplemente como algo a combatir o controlar.

  • ¿Cómo describe la oradora la relación entre la vulnerabilidad y los Placeres de la vida?

    -La oradora describe la vulnerabilidad como el lugar de nacimiento tanto de emociones difíciles como de Placeres como la alegría, la creatividad, el amor y la pertenencia.

  • ¿Qué estrategias utiliza la oradora para explicar cómo lidiar con la vulnerabilidad en la vida moderna?

    -Propone que debemos dejar de anestesiar nuestra vulnerabilidad, dejar de hacer que lo incierto sea cierto, dejar de culpar y comenzar a creer que somos suficientes como estamos.

Outlines

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🎤 Identidad de un narrador de historias

El narrador comienza con una anécdota sobre un planificador de eventos que luchaba por definirlo en un volante. Se plantea la dicotomía entre ser un investigador y un narrador de historias. A pesar de su formación académica en trabajo social y su inclinación a ordenar y medir las cosas, decide aceptar el título de 'investigador narrador'. Explica que sus investigaciones están centradas en la conexión humana, y cómo la desconexión y la vergüenza pueden desafiar esta percepción. La vergüenza se presenta como el miedo a la desconexión y a ser insuficientes. La narrativa se enfoca en la importancia de la conexión y cómo la vergüenza y la vulnerabilidad afectan nuestra capacidad para sentirnos conectados.

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🔍 Desentrañando la vergüenza y la vulnerabilidad

El narrador describe su misión de entender la vergüenza y la vulnerabilidad, y cómo estos sentimientos pueden impedir la conexión. Tras seis años de investigación y análisis de historias, concluye que la clave para sentirse conectado y amado radica en la creencia de que se es digno de amor y pertenencia. Define a las personas que viven con un fuerte sentido de dignidad como 'gente de corazón entero', quienes tienen el coraje de ser imperfectos, la compasión de ser bondadosos con sí mismos y con los demás, y la capacidad de conectarse auténticamente con otros. Esta sección destaca la importancia de abrazar la vulnerabilidad como elemento esencial de la humanidad.

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🌟 La importancia de la vulnerabilidad y el despertar espiritual

Aquí, el narrador comparte su lucha personal con la vulnerabilidad y cómo su enfoque de control y predicción habitual se enfrentó a la idea de vivir con vulnerabilidad. Describe su 'despertar espiritual' como un proceso difícil y no lineal de aceptar la vulnerabilidad como una parte esencial de la vida. Al buscar ayuda terapéutica, se enfrenta a su propia resistencia a la vulnerabilidad y comienza a entenderla como una fuente de creatividad, alegría y amor, más que simplemente un riesgo o una debilidad.

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🚫 Numbing the Pain: Los peligros de anestesiar la vulnerabilidad

En este párrafo, el narrador explora cómo anestesiamos la vulnerabilidad en nuestra vida cotidiana, y las consecuencias negativas de esta práctica. Describe cómo intentar evitar la vulnerabilidad puede llevar a comportamientos nocivos, como el sobrepeso, la adicción y el consumo excesivo de medicamentos. Argumenta que no podemos anestesiar solo los sentimientos negativos sin anestesiar también los positivos, lo que lleva a una vida menos plena y más cíclica de dolor y búsqueda de anestesia. También critica la tendencia a hacer todo lo incierto cierto, como la polarización en la política y la religión, y cómo esto refleja una falta de diálogo y comprensión.

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🌱 Practicando la autenticidad y la gratitud

El narrador concluye con una reflexión sobre la importancia de ser vistos profundamente, incluso en nuestra vulnerabilidad, y el desafío de amar con todo el corazón sin garantías. Aboga por la práctica de la gratitud y la alegría en momentos de incertidumbre y terror, y cómo esto puede ayudarnos a sentirnos vivos y conectados. También enfatiza la idea de creer en nuestra propia suficientez, lo que puede transformar nuestras relaciones y hacernos más compasivos con los demás y con nosotros mismos.

Mindmap

Keywords

💡Storyteller

Un 'Storyteller' es alguien que cuenta historias de una manera creativa y emocional para conmover a sus oyentes. En el vídeo, el orador se identifica a sí mismo como un 'Storyteller', lo que indica que su enfoque en la investigación y la presentación de sus hallazgos es narrativo y enfocado en las experiencias humanas. Este término es clave para comprender que la charla no es solo académica, sino que busca tocar el corazón de los asistentes a través de las historias.

💡Conexión

La 'Conexión' se refiere a la capacidad de sentirse vinculado con otros y es presentada como una necesidad fundamental para el bienestar emocional y la satisfacción en la vida. El orador menciona que la conexión es el motivo principal detrás de su investigación, destacando su relevancia en áreas como la justicia social y la salud mental.

💡Desconexión

La 'Desconexión' es el estado opuesto a la conexión y se menciona en el vídeo como una experiencia común que surgió durante la investigación del orador. Personas que hablaron sobre amor y pertenencia compartieron historias de desconexión, lo que sugiere que la desconexión puede ser un obstáculo para la felicidad y la realización plena de la vida.

💡Vulnerabilidad

La 'Vulnerabilidad' se define como la capacidad para ser herido o expuesto al riesgo de sufrimiento o daño emocional. En el vídeo, se argumenta que la vulnerabilidad es esencial para la conexión y la autenticidad, pero también es una fuente de miedo y ansiedad. El orador explora cómo lidiar con la vulnerabilidad y cómo puede ser la raíz de la alegría y la creatividad.

💡Vergüenza

La 'Vergüenza' se describe como el miedo a la desconexión y se menciona como un obstáculo para la conexión y la autenticidad. El orador investiga la vergüenza como una reacción universal a la posibilidad de ser rechazado o considerado indigno de conexión.

💡Valor propio

El 'Valor propio' es la creencia de que uno es digno de amor y pertenencia. Según el vídeo, las personas con un fuerte sentido de valor propio tienden a vivir de manera más plena y con una mayor conexión con otros. Este concepto es central en la investigación del orador y se presenta como una meta para alcanzar una vida más satisfactoria.

💡Coraje

El 'Coraje', en el contexto del vídeo, se refiere a la valentía de ser imperfecto y de enfrentar la vulnerabilidad. Es una de las características que el orador asocia con aquellos que viven de manera 'corazonada' y que tienen un fuerte sentido de valor propio.

💡Compasión

La 'Compasión' es la capacidad de sentir y compartir el sufrimiento de otros. En el vídeo, se destaca la importancia de la compasión hacia uno mismo como una base para ser compasivo con los demás y para poder establecer conexiones genuinas.

💡Autoaceptación

La 'Autoaceptación' implica aceptar y apreciar a uno mismo tal como es, incluyendo sus defectos y limitaciones. Según el vídeo, la autoaceptación es un pilar de la autenticidad y la conexión con otros, y es una habilidad que se puede desarrollar para mejorar la calidad de vida.

💡Anestesiar

El término 'Anestesiar' se utiliza en el vídeo para describir cómo las personas intentan evitar o atenuar sus emociones negativas, como la vulnerabilidad, a través de comportamientos como el consumo de alcohol o la adicción. El orador argumenta que el anestesiar las emociones negativas también nos impide sentir las positivas, lo que lleva a un ciclo de insatisfacción y desconexión.

Highlights

The speaker was initially labeled as a researcher but worried that it would be perceived as boring and irrelevant.

The event planner decided to call the speaker a 'storyteller', which resonated more with the speaker's approach.

The speaker identifies as a researcher-storyteller, collecting stories that are 'data with a soul'.

The research began with a focus on 'connection', viewing it as a fundamental human need.

Negative experiences of disconnection often overshadow positive experiences of connection.

Shame was identified as the primary barrier to connection, defined as the fear of disconnection.

The speaker committed to spending a year researching shame to understand and outsmart it.

Vulnerability was found to be at the core of shame and fear, yet also essential for connection.

The speaker's research revealed that those with a strong sense of worthiness believe they are worthy of love and belonging.

Wholehearted living involves courage, compassion, and connection.

Vulnerability was redefined as a strength, necessary for living wholeheartedly.

The speaker experienced a personal struggle with vulnerability, leading to a spiritual awakening.

Vulnerability cannot be selectively numbed; numbing negative emotions also numbs positive ones.

The speaker suggests that numbing vulnerability through addiction and other means is rampant in society.

Certainty is used as a defense mechanism against vulnerability, seen in areas like religion and politics.

The speaker argues that we should raise children to embrace their imperfections and struggles.

The speaker concludes by emphasizing the importance of authenticity and believing in one's own worth.

Transcripts

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so I'll start with this a couple years

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ago an event planner called me because I

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was going to do a speaking event and she

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called and she said I'm really

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struggling with how to write about you

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on the little flyer and I thoughtwell

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what's the struggle and she said

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well I saw you speak and I I I I'm going

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to call you a researcher I think but I'm

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afraid if I call you a researcher no one

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will come because they'll think you're

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boring and

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irrelevant and I like okay and she said

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so but the thing I liked about your talk

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is you know you're a Storyteller so I

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think what I'll do is just call you a

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Storyteller and of course the academic

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insecure part of me was like you're

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going to call me a what and she said I'm

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going to call you a Storyteller and I

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was like oh why not m magic pixie um I

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was like I I don't I let me think about

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this for a second and so I tried to call

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Deep on my courage and I thought you

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know I am a Storyteller I'm a

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qualitative researcher I collect stories

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that's what I do and maybe stories are

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just data with a soul you know and maybe

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I'm just a Storyteller so I said you

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know what why not you just say I'm a

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researcher Storyteller and she

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went there's no such thing

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so I'm a researcher or Storyteller um

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and I'm going to talk to you today we're

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talking about expanding perception and

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so I want to talk to you and tell some

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stories about a piece of my research

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that fundamentally expanded my

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perception um and really actually

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changed the way that I live and love and

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work and parent um and this is where my

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story starts when I was a young

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researcher doctoral student my first

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year I had a research Professor who said

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to us here here's the thing if you

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cannot measure it it does not

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exist and I thought he was just sweet

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talking to me I was like really and he's

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like absolutely so you have to

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understand that I have a bachelor's in

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social work a master's in social work

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and I was getting my PHD in social work

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so my entire academic career was

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surrounded by people who kind of

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believed in the life's

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messy love it you know and I'm more the

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life's messy clean it up

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organize it and put it into a Bento Box

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um and so to think that I had found my

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way to found a career that takes me you

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know really one of the big sayings in in

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social work is lean into the discomfort

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of the work and I'm like you know knock

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discomfort upside the head and move it

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over and get all A's that's my that was

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my

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Mantra so I was very excited about this

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and so I thought you know what this is

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the career for me because I am

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interested in some messy topics but I

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want to be able to make them not messy I

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want to understand them I want to hack

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into these things that I know are

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important and lay the code out for

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everyone to see so where I started was

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with connection because by the time

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you're a social worker for 10 years what

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you realize is that connection is why

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we're here it's what gives purpose and

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meaning to our

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lives this is this is what it's all

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about it doesn't matter whether you talk

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to people who work in social justice and

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mental health and abuse and neglect what

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we know is that connection the ability

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to feel

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connected is neurobiologically that's

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how we're wired it's why we're here so I

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thought you know what I'm going to start

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with

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connection well you know that that

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situation where you get an evaluation

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from your boss and she tells you 37

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things that you do really awesome and

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one thing that you can't you know an

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opportunity for

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growth um and all you think about is

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that opportunity for growth right well

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apparently this is the way my work went

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as well because when you ask people

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about love they tell you about

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heartbreak when you ask people about

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belonging they'll tell you their most

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excruciating experiences of being

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excluded and when you ask people about

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connection the stories they told me were

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about

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disconnection so very quickly really

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about six weeks into this research I ran

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into this unnamed thing that absolutely

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unraveled

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Connection in a way that I didn't

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understand or had never seen and so I

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pulled back out of the research and

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thought I need to figure out what this

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is and it turned out to be

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shame and shame is really easily

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understood as the fear of disconnection

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is there something about me that if

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other people know it or see it that I

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won't be worthy of connection the things

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I can tell you about it it's Universal

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we all have it the only people who don't

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experience shame have no capacity for

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human empathy or connection no one wants

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to talk about it and the less you talk

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about it the more you have

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it what underpinned this shame this I'm

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not good enough which we all know that

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feeling I'm not blank enough I'm not

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thin enough Rich enough beautiful enough

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smart enough promoted enough um the

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thing that underpinned this was

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excruciating

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vulnerability this

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idea of an order for connection to

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happen we have to allow ourselves to be

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seen really

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seen and you know how I feel about

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vulnerability I hate vulnerability and

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so I thought this is my chance to beat

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it back with my measuring stick I'm

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going in I'm going to figure this stuff

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out I'm going to spend a year I'm going

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to totally deconstruct shame I'm going

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to understand how vulnerability works

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and I'm going to outsmart

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it so I was ready and I was really

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excited

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as you know it's not going to turn out

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well

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um you know this so I could tell you a

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lot about shame but I'd have to borrow

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everyone else's time but here's what I

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can tell you that it boils down to and

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this may be one of the most important

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things that I've ever learned in the

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decade of doing this

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research my one year has turned into six

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years thousands of stories hundreds of

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long interviews focused groups at one

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point people were sending me journal

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pages and sending me their stories um

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thousands of pieces of

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data um and six years and I kind of got

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a handle on it I kind of understood this

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is what shame is this is how it

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works I wrote a book I published a

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theory but something was not okay um and

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what it was is that if I roughly took

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the people I interviewed and divided

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them into

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people who really have a sense of

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worthiness that's what this comes down

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to a sense of worthiness they have a

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strong sense of love and belonging and

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folks who struggle for it and folks who

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are always wondering if they're good

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enough there was only one variable that

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separated the people who have a strong

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sense of love and belonging and the

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people who really struggle for it and

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that was the people who have a strong

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sense of love and belonging believe

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they're worthy of love and belonging

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that's

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it they believe they're Worthy

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and to me the hard part

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of the one thing that keeps us out of

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connection is our fear that we're not

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worthy of

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connection was something that personally

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and professionally I felt like I needed

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to understand

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better so what I

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did is I took all of the interviews

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where I saw worthiness where I saw

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people living that way and just looked

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at those what do these people have in

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common and I have I have a slight office

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apply addiction but it's another talk um

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so I had a manila notebook a manila

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folder and I had a Sharpie and I was

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like what am I going to call this

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research and the first words that came

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to my mind were

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wholehearted these are kind of

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wholehearted people living from this

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deep sense of worthiness so I wrote at

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the top of the manila

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folder and I started looking at the data

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in fact I did it first in this very four

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in a

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4-day very intensive data analysis where

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I went back pulled these interviews

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pulled the stories pulled the incidents

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what's the what's the theme what's the

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pattern my husband left town with the

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kids um because I always go into this

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kind of Jackson poock crazy thing where

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I'm just like writing and and going and

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kind of just in my researcher

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mode and so here's what I

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found what they had in common was a

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sense of courage and I want to separate

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courage and bravery for you for a minute

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Courage the original definition of

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courage when it first came into the

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English language it's from the Latin

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word c meaning heart and the original

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definition was to tell the story of who

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you are with your whole

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heart and so these folks had very simply

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the courage to be

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imperfect they had the compassion to be

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kind to themselves first and then to

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others because as it turns out we can't

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practice compassion with other people if

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we can't treat ourselves kindly and the

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last was they had connection and this

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was the hard part as a result of

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authenticity they were willing to let go

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of who they thought they should be in

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order to be who they were which is you

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have to absolutely do that for

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connection the other thing that they had

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in

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common was

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this they fully embraced

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vulnerability

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they believed

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that what made them vulnerable made them

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beautiful they didn't talk about

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vulnerability being comfortable nor did

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they really talk about it being

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excruciating as I had heard earlier in

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the shame interviewing they just talked

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about it being

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necessary they talked about the

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willingness to say I love you

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first the willingness

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to do something where there are no

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guarantees

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the

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willingness to breathe through waiting

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for the doctor to call after your

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mamogram the willing to invest in a

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relationship that may or may not work

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out they thought this was

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fundamental I personally thought it was

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betrayal um I could not believe I had

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pledged allegiance to

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research where our job you know the

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definition of research is to control

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control and prict to study phenomenon

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for the reason for the explicit reason

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to control and predict and now my very

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you know my mission to control and

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predict had turned up the answer that

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the way to live is with vulnerability

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and to stop controlling and predicting

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this led

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to a little

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breakdown which actually looked more

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like this um and it did it led to a I

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call to break down my therapist calls it

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a spiritual

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awakening Spiritual Awakening sounds

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better than breakdown but I assure you

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it was a breakdown and I had to put my

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data away and go find a therapist let me

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tell you something you know who you are

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when you call your friends and say I

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think I need to see somebody who do you

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have any

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recommendations because about five of my

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friends are like woo I wouldn't want to

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be your therapist

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um and I was like what does that mean

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and they're like I they're just saying

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you know like don't bring your measuring

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dick

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uh like

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okay so I found a therapist my first

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meeting with her

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Diana I brought in my list of the way

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the wholehearted live and I sat down and

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she said you know how are you and I said

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I'm great you know I'm I'm I'm okay and

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she said what's going on and I said and

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this is a therapist who sees therapists

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because we have to go to those because

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they're being yes meters are good

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um and so I said here's the thing I'm

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struggling and she said what's the

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struggle and I said well I have a

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vulnerability issue and you know and I

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know that vulnerability is kind of the

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core of Shame and fear and our struggle

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for worthiness but it appears that it's

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also the birthplace of joy of

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creativity of belonging of love and I I

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think I have a problem

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and I just I need some help and I said

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but here's the thing no family stuff no

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childhood I

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just I just need some

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strategies thank you

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um so she goes like this

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and then I said it's bad right she said

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it's neither good nor

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bad it just is what it is and I said oh

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my God this is GNA suck

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um and it did and it didn't um and it

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took about a

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year and you know how there are people

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that like when they realize that

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vulnerability and tenderness are

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important that they kind of surrender

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and walk into it a that's not me and B I

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don't even hang out with people like

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that

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um for me it was a year-long street

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fight it was a slugfest vulnerability

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pushed I pushed back I

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lost um the fight but probably won my

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life back and so then I went back into

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the research and spent the next couple

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of years really trying to understand

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what they the wholehearted um what the

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choices they were making and and what

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what is what what are we doing with

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vulnerability why do we struggle with it

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so much am I alone in struggling with

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vulnerability no so this is what I

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learned we numb

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vulnerability when we're waiting for the

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call it was funny I sent something out

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on Twitter and on Facebook that says how

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would you define vulnerability what

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makes you feel vulnerable and within an

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hour and a half I had 150

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responses um because I wanted to know

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you know what's out there

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having to ask my husband for help

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because I'm sick and we're newly married

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um initiating sex with my husband

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initiating sex with my wife being turned

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down asking someone out waiting for the

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doctor to call back getting laid off

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laying off people this is the world we

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live in we live in a vulnerable World um

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and one of the ways we deal with it is

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we numb

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vulnerability and I think there's

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evidence

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and it's not the only reason this

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evidence exists but I think that there

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it's a a huge cause we

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are the most

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inbt

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obese

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addicted and medicated adult cohort in

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US

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history the problem is and I learned

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this from the

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research that you cannot selectively

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numb emotion you can't say here's the

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bad stuff here's vulnerability here's

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grief here's shame here's fear here's

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disappointment I don't want to feel

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these I'm going to have a couple of

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beers and a banana nut

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muffin I don't want to feel these and I

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know that's I know that's knowing

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laughter I I hack to your lives for a

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living I know that's god

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um you can't numb those hard feelings

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without numbing the other aects or

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emotions you cannot selectively numb so

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when we numb

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those we numb

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joy we numb gratitude we numb

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happiness and then we are miserable and

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we are looking for purpose and meaning

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and then we feel vulnerable so then we

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have a couple of beers and a banana that

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muffin and it becomes this dangerous

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cycle

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um one of the things that I think that

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we need to think about is why and how we

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numb and it doesn't just have to be

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addiction

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the other thing we do is we make

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everything that's uncertain

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certain religion has gone from a belief

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in faith and mystery to certainty I'm

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right you're wrong shut

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up that's

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it just

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certain the more afraid we are the more

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vulnerable we are the more afraid we are

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this is what politics looks like today

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there's no discourse anymore there's no

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conversation there's just blame you know

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what blame you know how blame is

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described in the

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research a way to discharge pain and

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discomfort we perfect if there's anyone

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who wants their life to look like this

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it would be me but it doesn't work

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because what we do is we take fat from

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our butts and put it in our

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cheeks which just I hope in a 100 years

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people will look back and go wow you

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know um and we perfect most most

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dangerously our children let me tell you

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what we think about children they're

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hardwired for struggle when they get

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here when you hold those perfect little

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babies in your hand our job is not to

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say look at her she's perfect my job is

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just to keep her perfect make sure she

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makes a tennis team by fifth grade and

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yell by seventh grade that's not our job

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our job is to look and say you know what

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you're imperfect and you're wired for

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struggle but you are worthy of love and

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belonging that's our job show me a

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generation of kids raised like that and

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we'll end the problems I think that we

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see today we

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pretend that what we do doesn't have an

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effect on

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people we do that in our personal lives

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we do that corporate whether it's a

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bailout an oil

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spill a recall we pretend like what

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we're doing doesn't have a huge impact

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on other

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people I would say to companies this is

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not our first rodeo

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people we just need you to be authentic

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and real and say

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we're sorry we'll fix

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it but there's another way and I'll

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leave you with this this is what I have

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found to let ourselves be seen deeply

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seen vulnerably

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seen to love with our whole hearts even

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though there's no

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guarantee and that's really hard and I

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can tell you as a parent that's

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excruciatingly

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difficult to practice gratitude and joy

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in those moments of kind of Terror when

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we're wondering can I love you this much

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can I believe in this as passionately

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can I be this Fierce about this just to

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be able to stop and instead of

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catastrophizing what might happen to say

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I'm just so

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grateful because to feel this vulnerable

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means I'm

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alive and the last which I think is

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probably the most

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important is to believe that we're

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enough because when we work from a place

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I believe that says I'm enough

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then we stop screaming and start

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listening we're Kinder and gentler to

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the people around us and we're Kinder

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and gentler to

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ourselves that's all I have thank you

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