“Wholehearted living is about engaging in our lives from a place of worthiness. It’s about cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection to wake up in the morning and think, No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough. It’s about going to bed at night thinking, Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.” -Brené Brown
I just finished the book “The Gifts of Imperfection” by Brené Brown. It was not just the reading of the book, l but also the process by which I was lead to read this book that strikes me. I was in the process of moving across the country, changing job roles and learning how to be a mother of a toddler when a close friend gave me this book and said, “I was reading this book while I was moving and it really helped me.” The entire book is about human connection and what makes it so powerful and I feel like the way I came to own this book is an incredible example of this: vulnerability during a potentially hard time of life; someone stepping out and saying, “me too!”
If I have learned anything during my short time of being a mother, it’s that we need each other. We need to support one another and remind ourselves, and those around us, that we are not alone. We need to constantly break down that image of the “perfect mom” in our minds and replace it with our true selves, the ones that may have a lot of chores that are left undone at the end of the day, which is okay!
The idea of allowing others to see our true selves, allows space for “me too;” it allows vulnerability, which allows connection and an awareness that we are not the only ones going through whatever life phase we are in. It is so much easier to go at this life, to live our best life, having someone else alongside you that isn’t perfect. In all seriousness, one of my favorite things to do is call up one of my close friends and start a conversation with, “Can I tell you about my latest ‘mom fail’ please?”
Friends, we need this!
Take a second today and think about a practical way that you can choose to be more vulnerable with those around you, allowing them to also have a safe space to be more vulnerable.
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