{"id":2163,"date":"2014-03-03T18:46:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T00:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=2163"},"modified":"2014-03-03T18:46:23","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T00:46:23","slug":"on-shame-and-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/?p=2163","title":{"rendered":"On Shame and Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This Ted Talk from <a href=\"http:\/\/brenebrown.com\/\">Bren\u00c3\u00a9 Brown<\/a> really had an impact on me. I ran across it a few months ago, and I&#8217;ve now read most of her books. I&#8217;m now a huge fan of vulnerability. Willingness to be vulnerable is one of the most courageous things a person can do. You can&#8217;t be vulnerable without crashing head first into your own deepest pits of personal shame, though. Willingness to work through your own shame in order to remain in a place where you feel vulnerable so as to remain open to connections to other human being is one of the most courageous things you can do. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about these issues a lot lately. I&#8217;ve been through a lot of changes this year, and there&#8217;s nothing quite like change to bring out the insecurities. Bren\u00c3\u00a9 Brown has helped through the transitions. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I thought about her talks on vulnerability and shame today when I needed to write a sample essay for my students. You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/210402371\/Understanding-Shame\">read my essay about understanding shame on Scribd<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Courage is writing an essay about things that make you feel ashamed and sharing that essay with a room full of students. I&#8217;m not sure posting that essay online for others to read even qualifies as vulnerable and courageous, though. I may have moved into just plain crazy territory now. <\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy my essay. I hope that if it triggers any of your own shame buttons, you will remember that vulnerability is courage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Ted Talk from Bren\u00c3\u00a9 Brown really had an impact<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happiness-vs-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.writerlyhaphazardry.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}