If You Want to be Unbreakable, You Have to Let Yourself Bend

You do this by cracking open the door to your heart and letting the light in.

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A door doesn’t always readily swing open. Sometimes all it needs is a push. Other times, it requires the turn of a specific key.

In any case, it requires someone willing to open it, to surrender the illusion of security if only to see what’s waiting on the other side.

We all have doors around our hearts, that, if they stay locked long enough, begin to look like walls. We can open them at any time but that would mean showing the world our fortresses aren’t as impenetrable as we may have made them appear.

Opening the doors of our hearts means becoming vulnerable, but it is also the only way we let light in and, ultimately, the only way we let it out. Vulnerability is how we let ourselves be seen. It is the single path to genuine connection, compassion, and mutual understanding.

Vulnerability expert Brené Brown explains it like this:

“Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it’s having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome.”