Tag: vulnerable

Embrace Embarrassment

Posted on June 16, 2022 by The Clever Confidante

We all make mistakes, say things we don’t mean, or have awkward social moments and all of these can result in embarrassment. Whether you learn at the end of the day you’ve had food in your teeth since your lunchtime salad or you send… Continue Reading “Embrace Embarrassment”

Category: LifeTags: Connection, embarrassed, Embarrassing moment, embarrassment, empower, empowering, empowerment, Human Connection, human experience, klutz, mortification, Shame, socially awkward, vulnerability, vulnerable, worth, worthy

Emotional Exposure

Posted on April 26, 2021 by The Clever Confidante

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Emotional exposure is terrifying. I can’t be the only one that does everything in my power to attempt to control it? To refine, diminish, and play small in order to avoid potential pain In order to regulate vulnerability? Something wonderful comes into my life… Continue Reading “Emotional Exposure”

Category: Happiness, Life, LoveTags: control, control outcomes, embrace joy, Empowered, empowering, emppower, fear, fear of failure, fear of rejection, Life, Love, the clever confidante, vulnerability, vulnerable

Cravings

Posted on March 11, 2021 by The Clever Confidante

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One of the most basic needs we have as human beings is connection. We want to know and be known. Not just for how we make others feel, but for who we are – deep inside.

Category: Happiness, LifeTags: Connection, Cravings, Human Connection, Lonely, Longing, Lonliness, Love, relationships, To Be Known, To Be Seen, to matter, vulnerability, vulnerable, wait, Wait for love

Face the Bear

Posted on August 11, 2020 by The Clever Confidante

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Friend, relationships are difficult. They require work, whether that is picking up the phone to chat, planning and spending time together, or settling in to have the hard conversations… …they, relationships, require effort. Additionally, we all have triggers, pasts, and ‘imperfections’. The closer you… Continue Reading “Face the Bear”

Category: Happiness, Life, LoveTags: Choose, choose you, empower, empowering, fight or flight, flight, freeze, hold space, holding space, Intimacy, Love, relationship, relationships, self love, self worth, trigger, triggering, triggers, vulnerability, vulnerable