24/06/2025
THE HEALING POWER OF EMBARRASSMENT
Friend,
it’s time to return
to your sacred awkwardness!
To flushed cheeks and faltering words.
To jokes that don’t quite work.
To trying and not quite nailing it.
To tripping over your lines,
stumbling through your sentences,
feeling the heat and trembling rise up,
being a mess, and surviving it all.
Because you’re still so loveable,
even in your most embarrassing moments.
Come back to your humanness.
To this wonderful, messy freedom
that you are.
Embarrassment isn’t failure.
It’s a sign that you’re alive.
It means you’re showing up,
letting yourself be seen,
meeting your rawest, most vulnerable edge.
And every time you’re seen,
and you’re courageous in the light,
and you don’t die, and you don’t run,
your nervous system learns:
“It’s safe now.
We’re messy,
we’re imperfect -
but we are so damn safe.”
This is how healing happens:
not through thinking,
not through perfect spiritual answers
and stale old formulas for living,
but through deep somatic permission.
Your creative and divine awkwardness
will heal you
from deep within.
It really will.
How wonderfully embarrassing!
- Jeff Foster