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Numb the dark and you numb the light.

Brené Brown

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Brené Brown
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: November 18
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USA
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The willingness to show up changes us, It makes us a little braver each time.
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Knowledge is important, but only if we're being kind and gentle with ourselves as we work to discover who we are.
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One of the most painfully inauthentic ways we show up in our lives sometimes is saying yes when we mean no, and saying no when we mean hell yes.
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What makes you vulnerable makes you beautiful.
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But I don't think it's as dangerous, scary, or terrifying as getting to the end of our lives and wondering, what if I would have shown up?
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Joy comes to us in moments--ordina ry moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary.
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There’s nothing more daring than showing up, putting ourselves out there and letting ourselves be seen.
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Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.
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A good life happens when you stop and are grateful for the ordinary moments that so many of us just steamroll over to try to find those extraordinary moments.
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Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.
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If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.
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Vulnerability is the cornerstone of confidence.
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Shame derives its power from being unspeakable...If we speak shame, it begins to wither. Just the way exposure to light was deadly for the gremlins, language and story bring light to shame and destroy it.
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It's a practice for me every day, sometimes every hour of every day. It is an absolute practice. When I went into the research, I really thought that there are authentic people and inauthentic people, period. What I found is, there people who practice authenticity and people who don't. The people who practice authenticity work their ass off at it.
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Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.
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Hope is a function of struggle.
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Trust is a product of vulnerability that grows over time and requires work, attention, and full engagement.
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