Vulnerability is the capacity to allow meaningful exposure while retaining agency and discernment.
Vulnerability is the capacity to allow meaningful exposure while retaining agency and discernment.
It may involve showing uncertainty, expressing affection, asking for help, admitting hurt or letting another person see something we cannot completely control.
Vulnerability is not the same as disclosure.
Telling a stranger every detail of your life can be highly exposing while creating little intimacy.
Healthy vulnerability includes judgment about who, when and how much.
The capacity lies in allowing yourself to be genuinely encounterable without assuming that being open means abandoning your own protection.