Vulnerability sounds like truth and feels like courage. Truth and courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.
BRENE BROWNAuthenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It’s about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.
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Connect. It’s all about collective connection. Look into their eyes.
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Even in our deepest struggles, love, faith and beauty find a way.
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Always straddling the tension and trying not to tap out.
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If we can share our story with someone who responds with empathy and understanding, shame can’t survive.
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Vulnerability is not a victory march, it’s a cold and it’s a broken hallelujah.
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Shame, blame, disrespect, betrayal, and the withholding of affection damage the roots from which love grows. Love can only survive these injuries if they are acknowledged, healed and rare.
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Maybe stories are just data with a soul.
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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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Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.
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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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Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.
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What we don’t need in the midst of struggle is shame for being human.
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We either stay sick together or we get well together.
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Generosity. Bring all you have. It’s ok to be brave and afraid at the same time.
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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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