If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.
BRENE BROWNShame is a tool of oppression and dehumanization. I don’t believe shame will ever be an effective social just tool.
More Brene Brown Quotes
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What we don’t need in the midst of struggle is shame for being human.
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I’ve found what makes children happy doesn’t always prepare them to be courageous, engaged adults.
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The systen is not broken. It was built this way.
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Have you ever struggled with feeling lonely – even when you’re surrounded by people you love? I have. It’s painful and confusing.
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Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.
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Learning is hard. Unlearning is harder. Pretending that most of us don’t need to do either when it comes to racism is its own form of violence.
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Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting.
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We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.
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Courage is contagious.
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The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.
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Shame is a tool of oppression and dehumanization. I don’t believe shame will ever be an effective social just tool.
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Integrity is choosing courage over comfort; choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy; and choosing to practice our values rather than simply professing them.
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We either stay sick together or we get well together.
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Being held accountable for racism and feeling shame is not the same thing as being shamed.
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Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.
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