More Than a Box of Chocolates: Heart-Opening Vulnerabilities and Their Gifts – Transcript

Guest Speaker: Barbara Wolf Terao
Worship Leaders: Effie Brown & Patricia Duarte

Researcher Brene Brown asserts, “Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change.” While many of us tend to hide or deny our vulnerabilities, we all have them. What benefits might they hold for us? What is the soul trying to tell us? Exploring five varieties of vulnerabilities, Barbara Wolf Terao unearths gems from our deepest selves for our consideration.

Barbara Wolf Terao grew up as a Unitarian Universalist in Northfield, Minnesota. She and her husband, Donald, raised their two daughters in Evanston, Illinois and they now live near their children and grandchild on Whidbey Island. Barbara has been a teacher, psychologist, land ethic leader, and television host, though her most joyful roles are as mother and grandmother! Her articles and essays have appeared in The Seattle Times, Orion, Association for Humanistic Psychology journal, Writer’s Digest, Art in the Time of Unbearable Crisis, and other publications, as well as on her Of the Earth website and Substack. The message of her memoir, Reconfigured? When your life calls, listen.