Is vulnerability a weakness or a strength? Many think vulnerability is a weakness. But here's the thing. When a person is vulnerable, especially when they've made the CHOICE to be VULNERABLE (like running into a burning house to save someone, for example,) they have to show up with COURAGE to do that. Anytime there's risk that's when courage is present. So let me ask you again. Is vulnerability a weakness or a strength? When another human has the courage to talk to us about their thoughts of suicide we are seeing courage in action. They're choosing to be vulnerable and there's no guarantee what someone might do with that information. The hope is that the helper will honour the strength they're seeing before them. But it's still a risk. During the SafeTALK workshop with the Kitchener Fire Department this is one of the themes we explored. Today, we're all a lot better equipped to see the strength in vulnerability when someone has the courage to talk to us about suicide. ❤️🚒👨🏻🚒👩🏾🚒#vulnerability #courage #strengthinvulnerability #whencourageshowsup #humanshelpinghumans #kpffa #safetalk #suicideprevention @dc_rmartin @bootsontheground__ @ivegotyourback911 (at Kitchener, Ontario) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5frsoNHmib/?igshid=or0hwaspn12p