Vulnerability doesn’t mean telling others what happened to us from across a cafe table or from behind a microphone and then going home from the experience feeling just as alone as you did before
Vulnerability means allowing your human heart blanket to get sewn to other heart blankets
It’s about connection
We don’t share for status...We do it for synergy
We don’t confess for clout...We do it to build community
We tell our tale to invite others to tell theirs
It’s the sacred cycle of storytelling
We gather in a circle of trust and
say “here is my journey” then we listen to the other journeys that are shared
We take space
Then we give space
We pour...Then we absorb
We speak...Then we listen
We are storytellers...Then we are witnesses
Vulnerability isn’t just about grave digging in our past
to expose our skeletons...It’s about sewing quilts
Here is my patch
Here is your patch
Here is their patch
Here is us here
Here is our story
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©️ John “patchwork heart” roedel
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