While just the word vulnerability can trigger our defenses, it can also be a great gateway to secure relating and deepening the connection with our authentic selves. In a society heavily influenced by social media, unhealthy gender roles, and many other factors – Ann and Sue dive into the importance of changing the narrative and stepping out of our defensive invulnerable state and into our healthy, vulnerable selves. 

Time Stamps for Ditching Invulnerability

1:09 – Introduction to toxic invulnerability 

4:54 – Different ways we can stay in a place of invulnerability 

5:58 – Does being defensive mean I’m being invulnerable?

8:36 – How invulnerability is toxic on an individual level

9:30 – The relationship between perfectionism and invulnerability

14:05 – Social media’s influence on keeping us afraid of vulnerability

16:12 – Sue’s Beyonce anecdote 

19:51 – Practicing active vulnerability 

27:28 – Anxiety and invulnerability 

28:01 – Signs of invulnerability we may not recognize 

34:23 – Why we should call it harmful invulnerability versus toxic invulnerability

37:05 – Embracing our most authentic selves through vulnerability

Brene Brown’s Website – A resource where you can find her content on shame and vulnerability

“It’s Not All in Your Head – You Do Focus Differently on Zoom” – Scientific American article on Zoom and human connection

https://therapistuncensored.com/episodes/you-are-kenough-liz-plank-211/

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