Please, BARE With Me – An Invitation to Celebrate Vulnerability and Resilience
Photo Credit: @Goddusrising x Ms. Marisha
What happens when we stop performing and start revealing? When we release the need to hold it all together and instead, embrace our truth—raw, unfiltered, and in progress?
This is the question that guided me through My Year of Kintsugi - a mental health and research sabbatical where I intentionally disrupted my own life to redefine success on my own terms. I left behind the “certainty” of academia, choosing instead to explore pleasure, creativity, and self-restoration as pathways to personal fulfillment and professional impact. It was a practice in vulnerability - one that demanded I face uncertainty, discomfort, and the deep-seated fear of being truly seen.
Then came The 4 Personas. A creative immersion that pushed me to confront societal expectations, self-imposed limitations, unprocessed traumas from my past, and the parts of my identity I had suppressed as a result. Through the lens of a boudoir shoot, I crafted a visual narrative of the emotions that have shaped me—not as a romanticized tribute to resilience through pain, but as a declaration that joy, love, intimacy, and pleasure are just as integral to our evolution as struggle.
And now, I step into a new form of vulnerability: using my voice.
That is the purpose of my Sonic EXPs page - I’m challenging myself to explore new mediums of communication, creativity, and connection. This post is my first release, a baby step, a commitment to my own mission to celebrate human vulnerability and resilience.
Please, BARE With Me is more than a creative expression or the title of this episode, it’s an ethos, a call to action. Please, BARE With Me is my invitation for us to strip away the layers, to sit with discomfort of being exposed and vulnerable with others…it’s my invitation for us to reframe what it means to truly be ourselves, what it means to be resilient. Because true strength is not about endurance alone—it is about restoration, self-awareness, adaptability, and the bravery to be unfinished in community.
So I ask you: What would happen if you decided to bare it all? If you let yourself be seen, not just in the ways that feel safe, but in the ways that invite you to be brave, that call forth your transformation and internal liberation?
Drop your reflections in the comments, or if you feel called—share your story through voice, written word, music, or art.
Please, BARE With Me.
🎧 Listen now
00:00 — Welcome
01:15 — Please, BARE With Me explained
06:27 — Vulnerability Practice (Shedding) & Affirmation
08:26 — My Year of Kintsugi: Breaking, Mending, Becoming
12:52 — Vulnerability Practice (3 Role Play Prompts)
16:12 — Closing Reflections
18:27 — Call to Action, My Invitation to You
If you feel called, share in the comments a moment where you chose to bare it all—where you stepped into your truth, into uncertainty, into the beauty of your own becoming.
You can submit your story in any way that feels right to you:
Maybe it’s A voice note—let me hear your raw, unfiltered truth.
Maybe it’s A letter—where you share written words, that are honest and reflective.
I know there’s some vocalist out there, so share A song—a melody that carries your experience.
Or maybe it’s A piece of art—because sometimes expression is beyond language.
If you choose to share any multimedia from the options above, you must include a link as there is no upload feature for comments. Be sure to enable access so anyone who clicks your link(s) can enjoy!
