The 4 Vulnerability Avoidance Styles

If you’re craving more depth in your own embodiment or in the spaces you hold with clients, vulnerability is non-negotiable. 

It’s the key that opens us up to real intimacy and true transformation. When someone shares vulnerably with me—whether it’s a client, colleague or my child—I know we’ve reached the gold. 

We’re no longer hovering on the surface. We’re in rich, honest territory.

But vulnerability can be confronting. It asks us to feel the tenderness, shame, or discomfort that many of us were taught to avoid. And so, we’ve developed clever strategies—mostly unconscious—to sidestep that feeling. 

In this podcast, I’m sharing the 4 avoidance strategies we use to avoid vulnerability, and how naming your style is the first step to doing something different. We also explore: 

• How important vulnerability is for deeper connection 

• Why so many of us see vulnerability as a weakness (rather than the gift it is) 

• Why recognizing your vulnerability avoidance style is crucial to flexing your vulnerability muscle as a human (& practitioner) 

• The 4 Vulnerability Avoidance Styles 

• Why creating safe spaces for vulnerability is vital for growth.

Resources mentioned in this podcast: 

• Somatic Self Coaching - free guide 

• Primal Feminine Flow - at home embodiment practice 

• Feminine Embodiment Coaching Certification - professional training