Sabine’s Reviews > The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture > Status Update

"Why does the flight from vulnerability inhibit maturation? Nothing in Nature "becomes itself" without being vulnerable: the mightiest tree's growth requires soft and supple shoots, [..] Same goes for us: no emotional vulnerability, no growth. Even our "tougher" qualities like resilience, determination, confidence, and bravery, if authentic and mere bluster, have that softer state as a necessary precursor."