Brad Stulberg

You know when to be vulnerable?

You know when to be vulnerable?

Like when you don't want to share something, that's the thing that then you should share.

Like when you don't want to share something, that's the thing that then you should share.

In simple terms, it's the ability to hold two competing strong emotions at once.

In simple terms, it's the ability to hold two competing strong emotions at once.

So joy and despair, life and death, anger and love.

So joy and despair, life and death, anger and love.

And it's an extremely counterintuitive thing, but the more that we can embrace the full catastrophe of all these emotions...

And it's an extremely counterintuitive thing, but the more that we can embrace the full catastrophe of all these emotions...

the more free we become, because we don't resist the bad.

the more free we become, because we don't resist the bad.

And this is the that I learned in my OCD therapy, because if you try to resist something, it just gets stronger.

And this is the that I learned in my OCD therapy, because if you try to resist something, it just gets stronger.

Whereas if you can say like, oh, there's sadness,

Whereas if you can say like, oh, there's sadness,

Sadness is here.

Sadness is here.

Sadness hurts.

Sadness hurts.