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Where There’s Shame There’s Strength

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strength in vulnerabilityOne of the hardest steps in any personal growth journey is the leap into vulnerability. To expose your fear, shame, guilt, embarrassment and other emotional wounds to the world, you risk judgment, ridicule and even rejection. Even the word itself means the ability to be injured or wounded. Why would anyone ever want to go there?

Because vulnerability is a path to happiness and freedom. When you choose to be honest about what’s going on inside of you with someone else, that’s being vulnerable. When you face punishment, knowing it will hurt, that’s vulnerable. When you fess up and admit that you’re wrong, that’s being vulnerable.  [Read more…]

Filed Under: Behavior, Human Potential, Negative Emotions, Relationships Tagged With: emotional core, strength, vulnerability

The Personal Emotional Challenges that Keep us From Business Success

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depression anxiety happy successWhen I started The Overwhelmed Brain, I had no clue how I would be able to sustain it. But instead of concerning myself with an unknown future, I fearlessly purchased audio equipment and set my sights on the target of creating a weekly podcast that would spread my message.

About 6 months into the show, the reality that I would need an income to support it hit me hard. So, once again, I chose not to concern myself with a fear of an unknown future. Instead, I quit my job and started doing the show full time.

Having no money, I dug into savings to live off of for a while. And while exploring my options to make this show and everything associated with it more than just a hobby, I knew I had to make it into a living.

Pursuing a passion does involve creating a way to sustain that passion. In this episode, I am interviewed by Mike Sutton about the emotional aspects of running a business, and what it takes to get beyond the fears and doubts that almost everyone in business, whether their own or working for someone else, goes through.  [Read more…]

Filed Under: Behavior, Career, Finances, Negative Emotions, Passion Tagged With: Business, career, emotional core, failures, fears, Mike Sutton

Empowerment Through Vulnerability

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vulnerabilityEmotions rise up from our core, where we are both most vulnerable and powerful. When we can live from this core place inside of us we can be authentic. When that happens we are empowered to be our true selves.

Align your thoughts and feelings with your behavior and you have a recipe for true success in your life.  [Read more…]

Filed Under: Behavior, Human Potential, Negative Emotions, Passion, Personal Boundaries, Podcast Episode, Relationships, Self-Esteem, Self-Worth, Vulnerability Tagged With: authenticity, emotional core, empowerment, strength, vulnerability

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