Openness is a super power.

How does vulnerability contribute to strength?

Jeannie invites participants to drop into the moment. She talks about vulnerability as being demeaned in our culture and seeks to redeem it and talk about its true nature as openness. That the way we feel small when we feel soft and open has more to do with not being allowed to mature wide open, than it does the true nature of vulnerability. As we grow sturdy and move through the young places, we can remain open to the world while growing sturdy legs under our tender hearts. 


Exchanges

Exchange 1: Participant is experiencing insecurity and the return of an old addiction after taking a new job. Jeannie supports the person following their intuition to leave the job and talks about how vulnerability rises when we are reliant on the Holy.

Exchange 2: Participant felt hurt when a group tried to fix them instead of behold them in their grief. Jeannie talks about how it's important to be held and protected when we open to our grief. 

Exchange 3: Participant is facing trauma, chronic illness and being Ukrainian during this time of war, feeling like no one can hold what they are going through. Jeannie talks about a "yin take-over," grieving the "accomplished one" and exploring the question, "Who is this new one that I am now?"

Exchange 4: Participant finds it easier to land in the moment with others near and feels herself reaching for others when alone. Jeannie talks about drinking that in fully when it's happening, bringing it to the young places so they can grow up and feel sturdy on their own.

Exchange 5: Participant feels vulnerability around financial challenges. Jeannie invites them to hang in things as they are, with the unresolved, and the question "What am I for?"