How To Not Freak Out The Vocation Director (at Least Not Right Away)?

[Luigi]

It is very hard to expose my "inner world" to someone unless the environment is emotionally safe, and there's nothing very safe about a live-in. Its kind of sad but funny -- I can't be myself unless I'm accepted, and they (obviously) can't accept me if they can't see what I'm like and whether it might fit in with their community or not. :rolleyes:

 

That part about acceptance is the same for all of us - it's part of the human condition. Any time we open ourselves up to other people, we're taking a risk. We might be accepted, but we might be ridiculed, rejected, shunned, thought to be odd, etc.

 

You may be more aware of the dangers, or more sensitive to them, but we all face the same situation.

 

Find a textbook for a Communications 101 class and read the part about self-disclosure.  

[Gabriela]

Ask St. Gerard Majella for his intercession: http://www.maryprayforus.org/rdp/pages/majella.html

Edited April 17, 2014 by curiousing