This year, we explore what it truly means to "come alive" by embracing vulnerability as a pathway to authentic living and deeper connection.

• Vulnerability is not weakness but the birthplace of connection and worthiness
• New years don't create change—only our willingness to be different creates change
• Many of us compartmentalize vulnerability, being open in certain settings while shutting down in others
• Protecting ourselves from heartbreak by closing our hearts means missing the fullness of life
• Referencing C.S. Lewis: "Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken"
• Connection to ourselves and our feelings requires sustained openness and vulnerability
• People aren't looking for the meaning of life as much as they're looking for the experience of being alive
• Coming alive means opening to all experiences—not just the pleasant ones
• We need experiences, not just intellectual understanding, to truly transform

This year, make a commitment to lay an intention "smack dab in the middle of your mind" to be open, alive and vulnerable, willing to feel what is yours to feel and to know who you are in the face of it all.

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