What Can You Do If Your Friendships Don’t Feel Meaningful? Add Vulnerability

Do you feel like you or your friends are wearing facades? Are you at risk of showing up and trying to look like your Instagram feed? Do you wonder if you really know who they are, or are you scared to show who you really are? Or worse, are you over-sharing and making the mistake of thinking that if you just go raw and deep that that somehow accelerates the bond? Are you scared to share because you’ve been hurt before? Do you feel liked but doubt whether they really know you?

This is the 4th of 4 videos describing the 3 Relationship Requirements.

In this video, Shasta Nelson, a leading expert on friendship, teaches the 3rd of 3 Relationship Requirements that we can use to assess and evaluate every relationship in our lives. When we understand what each of these actions are — we then know how to start, repair, or deepen every friendship around us. Vulnerability is where we get to know each other so that we ultimately feel seen. Vulnerability isn’t just sharing our insecurities and dark secrets; on the contrary it’s about learning how to share in an incremental and safe way that fosters the growth of a long-term and healthy relationship. This video is packed full of ideas, tips, strategies, and ways to increase the vulnerability in all of your friendships!

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[tinybarabo]

The triangle makes so much sense. I struggle with this quite a bit atm as I moved countries and the current country is much colder/distant than my country of origin. So I overshared a lot, and I feel quite exposed + uncomfortable.

[daniellelinslimaleal]

I'm so grateful for those videos!