040: Owning and Sharing Your Real, Messy, Powerful Truth with Vanessa Cornell

Do you ever feel like you’re putting up a facade when you’re with a group of people? Maybe you feel everyone else has it together while you’re struggling to juggle all the things. In today’s episode, Vanessa Cornell is here to talk about holding space for your innermost thoughts to come forward, and how to have the courage to share those thoughts with others.

Vanessa Cornell is the founder of NUSHU. Through the power of true community, NUSHU holds space for curiosity and evolution for those experiencing profound personal awakening and transformation. Since her personal awakening, Vanessa has become a relentless and curious observer of the human condition, and a leading voice for true empowerment and a breaking down of the guru paradigm in the wellness space. The truth, she believes, lives, and has always lived, inside each of us.

Through NUSHU, Vanessa curates potent thought leaders, offers community programming and healing circles, and has trained dozens of facilitators to hold powerful space for others through NUSHU Group, a radically different modality that offers a safe space to fearlessly own your truth and experience compassion, non-judgment and deep connection.

• Visit: http://nushu.com/
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• Listen to The NUSHU Podcast: https://podfollow.com/nushu-podcast

3 takeaways about community and discovering your truest self:

• We put our best selves on like armor. This armor isn’t actually protecting you, it is cultivating the fear of showing your real self.
• Whatever is present for you is what’s right for you. Do not make judgements based on other people’s thoughts and experiences.
• Holding space for each other to just be ourselves cultivates true community. True community is a container of safety. If people feel safe, they will bring kindness and understanding to the community.

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