🦁 Day 9 of 30 Days of Bravery
👁 INTENTION
Today, let's feel what it's like to be fiercely alive and aligned with our brave intentions by compassionately embracing our vulnerable “imperfections”.
💬 QUOTE
To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.
– Criss Jami
🪄 AFFIRMATION
I am vulnerable because although my insecurities are at the core of what I fear, these vulnerabilities are the birthplace of my joy, creativity, and love. So I will compassionately embrace my imperfections because feeling so fiercely vulnerable means I am alive. I will let myself be deeply seen and share myself wholeheartedly even though there are no guarantees that things will work out.
📜 POEM
Let us embrace our imperfections,
our vulnerabilities and our fears.
For it is through our weaknesses,
that our strength and courage appear.
To share our weakness is to be brave,
to presence the darkness with our light.
For it is through our vulnerability,
that we can live life with all our might.
🧘 MEDITATION
In this guided meditation, Gia helps us tap into the most vulnerable place within us and create a safe space there. We'll learn to allow ourselves to feel and express from the heart so that we can be vulnerable and authentic.
📿 MANTRA
share yourself wholeheartedly
पूर्णतया स्वं साझां कुर्वन्तु
🦁 MICRO ACT OF BRAVERY
Today, be courageously vulnerable by sharing a weakness with a close friend you trust.
Notice how this vulnerability is nurtured and feels less endangered when presenced in a supportive space.
📓 JOURNAL PROMPT
Journal in hand, get some perspective on how the fear of rejection has been limiting you.
🙌 KUDOS
Nice work! You've just completed Day 9 of 30 Days of Bravery 🙌
One of the most vulnerable things we can do is share what is real for us with others. Fortunately, you're in a safe, non-judgmental, supportive place to do that.
So be brave and go ahead and share what's going on in your life that today's session inspired in the community Activity Feed.
Fear of a rejection limits me when it comes to seeking new clients. Even though I should not take it personally if they do not need or want my services, it is always a bit hard to deal with that. I think the best strategy is to detach and just know that rejection does not say anything about how worthy you or what you have to offer is.
I have held back in conversations when I wanted to “fit in” and haven’t been authentic.
It stops me to improve myself. I don’t approach people because I scare people don’t want to be friend with me. I stop finding a job because I scare the employer reject me. I am very passive and I knew that this is my defense mechanism to avoid myself face any bad experience or rejection.
I struggle with lonliness. I have a hard time being on my own. I need to be constantly busy. I am an extrovert and enjoy hanging out with people. If I have no one to talk to, I start over-texting which drive my friends nuts. My love language is quality time which does not really help, rather make it worse. It’s hard for me to find worth in myself. I’m trying to spend more time with God through devotionals, journaling, listening to worship music, but it’s still really hard. I usually try to escape my lonliness with distractions like a movie, crafts, piano, sports, but in the end, as soon as those pass, I’m alone again.
the fear of rejection effects how I dress, how I look, how I act, and what I watch or listen too. I want to fit in so I adapt those things to match others. I notice that I am only truly myself when I am by myself
I have a really hard time letting people see the real me and showing any signs of “weakness”. Or asking for help when I need it
So because that I dont have any close friends or friends in my life I’m gonna say it here.My weakness is I always have to stay strong, not feel anything. Until they become stuffed up and burtst out in a way or overdot things. And it came to a point where I felt as stressed as I am and trying to define this void in my life. For years and years I tried, spend nearly all my teenage life and young adulthood in depresson; on these days I start to feel the ‘void’ is a deep sense of sadness and the feeling of true despair. On these meditationd, if I can connect myself; these are the feelings I mostly go through. I hope someday the darkness ends and I get free.
Wish you love and luck…
It limits me in social situations mostly, it makes me build up wall before I even get to know someone because I immediately think that they won’t like me anyways.
It limits me greatly. I avoid social relationships, friendships or otherwise. I have a fear of failing when I try something new, so sometimes I won’t try at all. I become convinced that no one could ever like me, let alone love me.