
Emotional Vulnerability: Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable
Emotional vulnerability is the ability to recognize, feel and express your emotions. Particularly the more challenging ones. For many, ‘emotional vulnerability’ sounds scary and feels even scarier. If you grew up in an environment that did not encourage and nurture the expression of emotion or perhaps worse – showing emotion was met with shame and disdain, it can feel terrifying and unsafe to both accept another’s emotions and express your own. Children are inherently resilie