The Face of Vulnerability, Naming My Fears

     A curious sidebar to leaning into vulnerability is finding my own voice. One thing I was stripped of as a young boy during events that changed my very nature. Learning to be vulnerable has allowed me to move back towards being the truth I was born to be.
     Being afraid is another road that is a tough road for a man to go down. Voicing fears is not manly right? And there have been many a time I have voiced my fears or opened up and had them rammed right back down my throat. Often as a the victim of sexual abuse you're dealt with more critically than the predator. And let me tell you I have been on the end of much critical scrutiny about what happened to me. So fear lives deep running through me on many levels.
     I have learned to name my fears and embrace them for what they are. Some are real, some are old patterns and habits I am moving beyond. But having that voice to speak them is a powerful energy that has helped me to enter into more of my truth. Having a voice can scare others and lead to them judging you. Oh well, its better to have a free voice then a mind chained by others demands. I have new strength in naming my fears and setting them free. Fears are a form of energy that we internalize. By naming those fears I have been able to release that energy and move out beyond that force that kept me stuck. It's

hard to be completely fearless, but that is the joy that vulnerability can bring to life. It's a joy because there is more to gain and fully live than there is to lose.
     Fears become barriers in our mind that keep us from being fully alive. The types of barriers that trade freedom for a self-imposed prison. My goal is to harm no others on this journey. Having a voice doesn't mean being rude or confrontational. But giving voice to your fears sometimes means having to let others know that you've become a changed person and they may not like that. That is for those people to deal with. For my fears have no power over my life and being vulnerable enough to open them up to the world is living my true nature.

Blessings

Daniel

"Breaking the chains of ordinary and the curse of mediocrity."