YOU CAN BE FRAGILE AND STRONG

If you’re following Strictly Come Dancing this year, you likely watched the semi-final on Saturday and heard each professional dancer give their reasons why they thought their celebrity partners should make it through to the final.

Something in what Vito said about his partner Sarah really struck me. I’m not quoting here, but this is what I heard:

He thought she was one of the strongest people he’d ever met.

He felt privileged to have been allowed to see some of her fragility.

He wants others to see her fragility because it is beautiful.

And he wanted her to know that it’s okay to be fragile as well as strong.

I liked his message a lot, how about you?

It looks to me like when we fully embrace what feels delicate, vulnerable or fragile, we get to more deeply know ourselves as strong, we feel more fully alive and connected to ourselves, others and all of life.

It’s when we try to avoid or cover up what feels fragile, that we become increasingly cut off, brittle and exhausted from the effort of not allowing what’s here to be fully experienced.

There is nothing more empowering than knowing that our entire experience is safe, and that we do not need to censor parts of ourselves in order to be “strong”.

#innatehealth #resilience #wellbeing #strictly

A bird's nest, which is both fragile and strong.