People usually understand vulnerability as the possibility of being hurt or overpowered. So, for example, we say that a place is vulnerable when there are evident ways of trespassing. Likewise, we say of a person that they are vulnerable if we know their secrets or compromising information about them. Vulnerability, in its most basic sense,…
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It was horrible. It was worse than my worst nightmare. And it was the moment when Shibari taught me to be vulnerable. My husband and I were coming back from a night at the cinema—you know, one of those “let’s get away without the kids and remember how it used to be” kind of nights.…
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They told us to be strong. Also, they told us to despise weak people. And self-pity was the greatest crime of all. They taught us to be strong, and they told us it was wrong to show vulnerability. And yet, there’s a lot to say about what the pandemic taught us about vulnerability. We discovered…
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