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If you can't say it to me in front of my kids, don't say it.

Brené Brown

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Brené Brown
Age: 58
Born: 1965
Born: November 18
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We can talk about courage and love and compassion until we sound like a greeting card store, but unless we're willing to have an honest conversation about what gets in the way of putting these into practice in our daily lives, we will never change. Never, ever.
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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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Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.
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I believe in the healing power of laughter. I believe laughter forces us to breathe.
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Then I tell my own story. The two things that people really need to transform is language to understand their experience and to know they're not alone. It's the combination of the researcher-storyteller part.
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Perfect and bulletproof are seductive, but they don’t exist in the human experience.
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Empathy fuels connection sympathy drives disconnection.
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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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We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.
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Authenticity is also about the courage and the vulnerability to say, Yeah, I'll try it. I feel pretty uncomfortable and I feel a little vulnerable, but I'll try it!
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The universe is not short on wake-up calls. We’re just quick to hit the snooze button.
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Loving and accepting ourselves are the ultimate acts of courage.
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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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Healthy striving is self-focused: How can I improve? Perfectionism is other-focused: What will they think?
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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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You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.
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We teach what we have to learn. It's been an extraordinary journey that I couldn't have done with not only the research participants but the community, the tribe that we've built of people who are also on this journey.
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Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be.
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If you put shame in a petri dish, it needs three ingredients to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you put the same amount of shame in the petri dish and douse it with empathy, it can't survive.
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Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.
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