I absolutely love that you mentioned the ability to be vulnerable as a way to become brave. I think being brave could also carry a lot of wounds depending on contexts. Whenever something bad happened in my family, grown-ups would say, "Be brave."
Yes, and I think that this hiding vulnerability, sadness, hurtness etc is not true bravery - it is, I think, masking that requires a great deal of mental, emotional and physical energy.
Bravery is crying, being sad, and then bouncing back - not hiding the sadness and failing to find how to bounce back... I think resilience can be found in the tears and the healing that comes from that release (even if it needs to be released multiple times, and in different ways).
I think the stuff upper lip tradition is not good... and probably contributes towards why men have higher suicide rates than women because being vulnerable is not seen as a masculine trait.
I absolutely love that you mentioned the ability to be vulnerable as a way to become brave. I think being brave could also carry a lot of wounds depending on contexts. Whenever something bad happened in my family, grown-ups would say, "Be brave."
Yes, and I think that this hiding vulnerability, sadness, hurtness etc is not true bravery - it is, I think, masking that requires a great deal of mental, emotional and physical energy.
Bravery is crying, being sad, and then bouncing back - not hiding the sadness and failing to find how to bounce back... I think resilience can be found in the tears and the healing that comes from that release (even if it needs to be released multiple times, and in different ways).
I think the stuff upper lip tradition is not good... and probably contributes towards why men have higher suicide rates than women because being vulnerable is not seen as a masculine trait.