They claim that they don't want to gut Medicare or harm the vulnerable, but the truth of the matter is, is that you can't meet their own criteria without drastically cutting Medicare or having an impact on Medicaid or affecting our defense spending.
This creates the permission for others to be vulnerable, tell the truth, and take a risk.
Once you watch this video, take a risk today and share something that might make you feel vulnerable -- the truth about how you are really feeling or about your mental health.
When I wrote Paula, my mother said, "You've written so much about your intimate life, you are so vulnerable". And I said, "Mom, I'm not vulnerable because of the truth I tell, only because of the secrets I keep". My life is not different from anybody else's.
"It can be a very scary thing," she says of falling in love, "'The Words' is about that moment right before you open up and become very vulnerable and tell the truth...Then you jump, and Lord knows what's going to happen, but it's exciting".
It might explain why I'm introverted and extroverted, anxious and a risk-taker, strong and vulnerable". You can see the truth in this.
Even if we're vulnerable enough to tell the truth about how we really feel and ask for the support we truly want, it takes a certain amount of maturity, self-respect and humility to allow other people to support us.
Observe from a variety of lenses, and be sure to place high value on any instance where people allow you to see the vulnerable truth.
Trustworthiness and likeability come in large part from showing a willingness to be open and vulnerable, and to tell others the truth about what you're dealing with and aspiring to.
In the West today, largely but not solely because of the advent of digital media, the truth is more vulnerable than it has been for a long time.
But I've tried to do a good job of telling the truth and being vulnerable and transparent and people make their own judgements.
