Good Friday

Awoke this morning and watched the latest talk by Brené Brown on TED Talks. I watched her first video sometime last year where she talked about her work on vulnerability. It was fantastic. In this second talk she took the thinking a bit further, focusing on shame. It’s well worth watching. She is funny and poignant. She demonstrates the theme with the way she conducts the talk. Only a couple of slides as visuals, most of the talk straight to the audience. Wonderful.

And then I was thinking about the courage of writing a blog, laying open to the risk of ridicule. It’s exactly what she is talking about. Living our life fully means being prepared to be vulnerable, to take risks. Putting myself out there everyday in one way or another and overcoming the inauthentic voice within, seeking deeper for the still small voice within which talks to who I truly am, and why I am in the world.