Let's All Hold Hands and Be Vulnerable
I've been thinking about how writing this blog is really an act of conscious vulnerability. I take the thoughts in my head and try to make them coherent and organized and then I stick them out on the internet for anyone to see. It’s like posting a snapshot of myself totally exposed. And it is terrifying. I have ended up inside my closet, curled around myself in the dark taking deep breaths and trying to bring myself down from a panic attack every time I publish one. Every Time. But I don’t want to stop because even though it is really hard to open myself up and willingly expose myself to a world of friends and acquaintances and strangers, I completely believe it is worth it because I also believe that vulnerability promotes closeness between people. And I think feeling connected and close to other people is vital to our health and well-being. We all spend so much time fearing each other, afraid of exposing the parts of ourselves that we feel are weird or...