The World Is Not My Enemy ā Why Iām Trying to Let My Guard Down
āVulnerability is the core, the heart, the centre of meaningful human experiencesā ~BrenĆ© Brown
From a young age I learned that the world is not a safe placeāthat there are bullies out there that want to harm me and that I have to watch my back. I developed defense mechanisms in order to protect myself, or perhaps those mechanisms had been there all along, programmed into my psychology by millions of years of evolution.
Maybe these mechanisms served me in certain situations as they did my ancestors; telling me when to fight and when to run away. But as I …