If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.
BRENE BROWNCruelty is easy, cheap and rampant.
More Brene Brown Quotes
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Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.
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Never take yourself too seriously. Laugh, learn, keep it real.
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Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.
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Our ability to live a life of love and meaning, to make the world a braver and kinder place.
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The systen is not broken. It was built this way.
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Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.
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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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Fear and anxiety can drive us to become very self-focused.
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When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose.
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Courage is contagious.
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Just because someone isn’t willing or able to love us, it doesn’t mean that we are unlovable.
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Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.
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When 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.
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We can’t call ourselves free or brave when we keep running from the truth.
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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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