If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.
BRENE BROWNIf we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.
BRENE BROWNShame corrodes the very part of us that believes we are capable of change.
BRENE BROWNMaybe stories are just data with a soul.
BRENE BROWNWe must be committed to getting back up and beginning again the exact same number of times that we fall, trip, or get pushed down.
BRENE BROWNDuring a time of deep uncertainty and anxiety – when many of us have struggled to be our best selves all of the time – apologizing has never been more important.
BRENE BROWNVulnerability is not a victory march, it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
BRENE BROWNNostalgia 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.
BRENE BROWNSurviving this crisis will take a shift in mindset, and that’s tougher than we think – especially when we’re afraid.
BRENE BROWNWhen we screw up or fall down, many of us talk to ourselves in ways that we would never talk to someone we love and respect.
BRENE BROWNWe need to listen to Black women.
BRENE BROWNVulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it’s understanding the necessity of both; it’s engaging. It’s being all in.
BRENE BROWNLove is not something we give or get; it is something that we nurture and grow, a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them – we can only love others as much as we love ourselves.
BRENE BROWNStaying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.
BRENE BROWNCourageous leadership is a practice.
BRENE BROWNWhat we don’t need in the midst of struggle is shame for being human.
BRENE BROWNYou can’t spell wholehearted without A.R.T.
BRENE BROWN