{"id":3148,"date":"2013-05-09T11:22:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T16:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/?p=3148"},"modified":"2013-05-09T11:22:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T16:22:39","slug":"weak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/?p=3148","title":{"rendered":"Weak."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dumbbell\"<\/a>I cringe when I hear the word weak<\/i>. It has such a negative connotation\u2026a connotation of failure and unworthiness.<\/p>\n

I wish that it were the case that hearing that word would be a rare occurrence. But it’s not. In fact, I hear it frequently \u00a0both inside and outside of the therapy room.<\/p>\n

We use that word to describe ourselves most often but sometimes we hurl it out to highlight the failings of someone else.\u00a0 Either way, it packs a potent punch.<\/p>\n

At the core of this concept of weakness is the implication of some inability or failure. Something that we cannot do yet should be able to do.<\/p>\n

It is often perceived that we\/others are weak when we\u2026<\/p>\n

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Express emotion (especially for you men out there).<\/i><\/p>\n

Cave in to some external pressure.<\/i><\/p>\n

Fail to succeed at something.<\/i><\/p>\n

Are unable to physically and\/or mentally do something.<\/i><\/p>\n

And trust me that was a very short list of what we (humans) perceive weakness to be.<\/p>\n

The funny thing about this word is that it’s purpose is solely to describe unworthiness. We all fail at things and I think that it’s okay to say that\u2026what an interesting life it would be if there were no failure!<\/p>\n

Unworthiness though hits at something a little deeper\u2026the meaning in our lives.<\/p>\n

The feeling of being unworthy is so unpleasant and sometimes so devastating. Our words are powerful\u2026when we use them to describe ourselves and others.<\/p>\n

This is one of those posts where I don’t have an answer or a final direction but it’s something that I have been thinking about as an individual and as a therapist.<\/p>\n

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I cringe when I hear the word weak. It has such a negative connotation\u2026a connotation of failure and unworthiness. I wish that it were the case that hearing that word would be a rare occurrence. But it’s not. In fact, I hear it frequently \u00a0both inside and outside of the therapy room. We use that word to describe ourselves most Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[11,42,65,50],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acceptance-2","tag-acceptance","tag-charter-for-compassion","tag-connection","tag-dont-give-up"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Dumbbell.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3151,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3148\/revisions\/3151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3148"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collectiveinquiry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=3148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}