Why Letting Ourselves Be Weak Is Actually the Key to Becoming Strong
âTo share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.â ~Criss Jami
âYou have to be strong.â
Those were five words I heard without end after my father was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer on Black Friday 2012âa day that couldnât have been more aptly named.
In the months following, I marched, ran, skipped, crept, stumbled, crawled, and dragged myself through the darkest valley of my life. This was uncharted territory. This was an unprecedented season for us.
My dad was a fitness junkie, running and biking every morning, performing aerobics …