There can be no real connection without showing your own wounds.

Your wounds also heal when you look into the eyes of another human telling you their fear and trauma with tears in their eyes. You connect with the experience of very humbling and deep empathy as the pain and feelings you share are the same. They are universal. You are not separate and you become to understand that you were never broken or incomplete or different.

This is the power of sharing yourself with others. We are not here alone and were never supposed to figure thins out alone.