How to Weaponize Your Vulnerability
Chapter 23: Read this when you’ve been told your softness makes you weak
Dear Little Me,
Sometimes you’ll give someone a piece of your heart and they’ll look back at you like you said nothing at all, or worse use it against you.
That moment will break you.
Not because you were wrong to share but because you gave something sacred to someone who couldn’t hold it.
If you’ve ever thought
“Maybe I should’ve kept that to myself, or no one will ever understand me”.
Read this.
Vulnerability isn’t weakness.
But shared too soon, with the wrong person, it will leave you feeling exposed.
Because vulnerability is a double-edged sword.
It can build intimacy.
Or it can be weaponized.
You will learn the hard way who’s safe enough to see you unarmored.
We all do.
Eventually, you’ll start asking better questions Am I sharing this…
Because I’m strong enough to take rejection?
Or because I want someone else to carry it for me?
Am I okay being misunderstood?
Or am I still too tender for it to land the wrong way?
Vulnerability means risking being seen wrong.
And if that will shatter you it’s not time yet.
You don’t have to narrate your healing while it’s still happening.
Your truth is allowed to be private.
Your story is allowed to be sacred.
Your voice is allowed to wait until you can share it without caring how it’s received.
That’s how you weaponize your vulnerability:
Not by giving it all away to just anyone.
But by being discerning.
By knowing your story is powerful and only sharing it when you’re steady enough to not need anyone else to validate it.
Master your softness, and you’ll unlock the power of your vulnerability.
Sincerely,
Ellyette
PS: I write despite emails like this because I know that my words will find the right people. I hope you are brave enough to do things that scare you.
