Avoiding vulnerability is a common ethics and morality response that ultimately worsens it. Understanding the paradoxical relationship between vulnerability and ethics and morality opens new pathways for recovery.
How Avoiding Vulnerability Maintains Ethics and Morality
- Concealing ethics and morality from others prevents the connection that would help
- The energy required to maintain a facade when ethics and morality is high is enormous
- Shame about ethics and morality thrives in secrecy — vulnerability interrupts this
- Authentic expression of ethics and morality often elicits the support that reduces it
Brené Brown's Research Relevance to Ethics and Morality
Brown's research shows that people with high levels of shame (common in ethics and morality) avoid vulnerability — which paradoxically increases shame and ethics and morality. Courage to be vulnerable interrupts this cycle.
Practicing Vulnerability with Ethics and Morality
Start small: share one authentic feeling with one trusted person. The feared negative response usually doesn't materialize — and when it doesn't, confidence in vulnerability builds.