Vulnerability doesn't mean telling others what happened to us

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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