Brene Brown Quote
Oversharing? Not vulnerability; I call it floodlighting. ... A lot of times we share too much information as a way to protect us from vulnerability, and here's why. I'm scared to let you know that I just wrote this article and I'm under total fire for it and people are making fun of me and I'm feeling hurt -- the same thing that I told someone in an intimate conversation. So what I do is I floodlight you with it - I don't know you very well or I'm in front of a big group, or it's a story that I haven't processed enough to be sharing with other people - and you immediately respond hands up; push me away and I go, See? No one cares about me. No one gives a s*** that I'm hurting. I knew it. It's how we protect ourselves from vulnerability. We just engage in a behavior that confirms our fear.
Oversharing? Not vulnerability; I call it floodlighting. ... A lot of times we share too much information as a way to protect us from vulnerability, and here's why. I'm scared to let you know that I just wrote this article and I'm under total fire for it and people are making fun of me and I'm feeling hurt -- the same thing that I told someone in an intimate conversation. So what I do is I floodlight you with it - I don't know you very well or I'm in front of a big group, or it's a story that I haven't processed enough to be sharing with other people - and you immediately respond hands up; push me away and I go, See? No one cares about me. No one gives a s*** that I'm hurting. I knew it. It's how we protect ourselves from vulnerability. We just engage in a behavior that confirms our fear.
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