"I applaud both these women for showing us how making ourselves vulnerable is the path toward becoming stronger"
In this past week’s edition of Family First, two articles stood out to me because the authors were so deeply open about their human experience and I was very moved by their honesty.
“The Color of Truth” was not your typical baalas teshuvah story. The narrator described the challenges of becoming part of her community, unapologetically and in a very real way. Those emotions and issues are almost always a part of the journey, but since we don’t always hear about them, we may feel down on ourselves about our own questions and challenges. “If she could accept this lifestyle, why can’t I?” It’s scary to acknowledge feelings that we don’t like, especially when we feel it runs the risk of exacerbating them.
I had a similar response to the Lifetakes where a mother describes her experience of feeling more robotic than loving toward her child. What a scary moment of realization! But how important to acknowledge that we can all have moments where we don’t feel toward our kids the way we’d want to. How can we strive to an ideal and work to improve without first recognizing where we are?
Emotions don’t go away because we shut them in a closet, ignoring them. In most cases, that only makes them grow louder until they are overwhelming. I applaud both these women for showing us how making ourselves vulnerable is the path toward becoming stronger.
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