This is a post I am highly passionate* (see what I did there) about for many reasons, and have been contemplating writing it for a while now. Not that it is hard to write, rather, admitting that you have been lacking in the passion department when it comes to your hobbies and fitness is something that I perceived as a weakness and not one to be advertised.
But, I digress.
There is this book called Daring Greatly by Brene Brown. She is one of my favorite authors in the fact that she has been studying shame for over 15 years, and discovered that the desire to be perfect is the one thing that is keeping us from connection with others, and, most importantly, to ourselves. Since vulnerability is the core of creativity, alive-ness and those feelings you get when you are sitting with your friends, snort-laughing hysterically (if that is…
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