“Vulnerability is the core of all emotions and feelings.
If I look back over writing my blogs, organising and holding my fundraisers and all the other things I continually do in our son’s memory all I see at every corner is vulnerability – doing these things exposed/exposes me to being 100% vulnerable in my journey of grief and loss, but I can honestly say that it has given me 100% more courage than I ever used to have. If you really sit down and think about this quote it is so true. “We have to be vulnerable if we want more courage: if we want to dare greatly”. People may think that writing a blog is simple and easy, but what they don’t realise is that to write them you really are diving back into some of the darkest, hardest and most painful moments of your life. Sometimes the only way to move through something is to dive down into the deepest, darkest parts of yourself and your journey. I don’t feel that there is anything more that I can add to this quote – it really explains itself. “Only when we’re brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light”. Things I found in this book, meant something about what I was trying to achieve in my life, about loss and life, about sharing personal experiences and of course about being vulnerable and showing vulnerability: There are a few things I read in this book that really meant something to me. They say that ‘actions speak louder than words’ but since the loss of our son there are so many things that I read that I feel relate to my personal feelings and thoughts so well that I just have to share them with others, in the hopes that they too feel that they are able to relate. I share a lot about the things I have read in books. This all lead to picking up this amazing book called “Daring Greatly” written by Brene Brown – (I think a few people out there could learn a lot from reading it). So, some of you may wonder why I decided to talk about this as a topic…well when I realised how vulnerable sharing my experiences was making me I decided to see if I could find any books out there that might assist in shedding some light for me on and around being vulnerable. I share so that I can help to break such a taboo subject in society as well as to encourage others to speak up & let themselves be vulnerable…to be vulnerable is to show strength & courage. My blogs, fundraisers, donations & sharing of my personal experience of loss & life after loss all lead to one thing…vulnerability.
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