{"id":120,"date":"2019-03-16T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gatheringwomenswisdom.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2020-12-16T23:47:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T23:47:30","slug":"vulnerability-is-not-a-dirty-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gatheringwomenswisdom.com\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Vulnerability is Not a Dirty Word, March 16, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have been exploring feelings of vulnerability, growth, uncertainty, and the inspiration to move in new areas of experience.&nbsp;By way of contrast (feelings or experiences I consider unpleasant), I am more clear about the experiences I want, long for, welcome. And in the having of &#8220;new experiences&#8221; sometimes they feel unfamiliar or even awkward and uncomfortable; vulnerable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>vul\u00b7ner\u00b7a\u00b7ble<\/strong> &#8211; <em>synonyms<\/em>: unprotected, unguarded, undefended, unshielded, unarmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So considering these synonyms, consider the opposite; &#8220;protected, guarded, defended, shielded, armed&#8221;. <br>Is allowing yourself to be vulnerable healthy?&nbsp;<br>What does &#8220;vulnerable&#8221; look like to you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;I would love to hear your thoughts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been exploring feelings of vulnerability, growth, uncertainty, and the inspiration to move in new areas of experience.&nbsp;By way of contrast (feelings or experiences I consider unpleasant), I am more clear about the experiences I want, long for, welcome. And in the having of &#8220;new experiences&#8221; sometimes they feel unfamiliar or even awkward and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatheringwomenswisdom.com\/?p=120\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vulnerability is Not a Dirty Word, March 16, 2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gatheringwomenswisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gatheringwomenswisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gatheringwomenswisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatheringwomenswisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatheringwomenswisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatheringwomenswisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatheringwomenswisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gatheringwomenswisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatheringwomenswisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gatheringwomenswisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}