When you wake up with a vulnerability hangover

"After I wrote it I had a vulnerability hangover," I said to an old friend as we sat talking about life and writing over dinner. "Isn't that the best term?" he said. He also writes, and often about close-to-the-heart topics where truth and poignancy emerge alongside some level of self-revelation. "I often get a vulnerability hangover after I post too." We got the term from Brene Brown, whose book "Daring Greatly" we'd coincidentally both

"After I wrote it I had a vulnerability hangover," I said to an old friend as we sat talking about life and writing over dinner. "Isn't that the best term?" he said. He also writes, and often about close-to-the-heart topics where truth and poignancy emerge alongside some level of self-revelation. "I often get a vulnerability hangover after I post too." We got the term from Brene Brown, whose book "Daring Greatly" we'd coincidentally both recently read. It's about shame, vulnerability, and resil…