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I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.

Brené Brown

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Brené Brown
Age: 58
Born: 1965
Born: November 18
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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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Cool is the emotional straightjacket. It makes us less available for connection which makes us less equipped for leadership roles.
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If we want to be able to move through the difficult disappointments, the hurt feelings, and the heartbreaks that are inevitable in a fully lived life, we can't equate defeat with being unworthy of love, belonging and joy. If we do, we'll never show up and try again.
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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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If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging.
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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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We can’t practice compassion with other people if we can’t treat ourselves kindly.
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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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Wholeheartedness. There are many tenets of Wholeheartedness, but at its very core is vulnerability and worthiness facing uncertainty, exposure, and emotional risks, and knowing that I am enough.
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People may call what happens at midlife 'a crisis,' but it's not. It's an unraveling - a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you're 'supposed' to live. The unraveling is a time when you are challenged by the universe to let go of who you think you are supposed to be and to embrace who you are.
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Numb the dark and you numb the light.
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I'm never more courageous than when I'm embracing imperfection, embracing vulnerabilities, and setting boundaries with the people in my life.
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Authenticity 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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There's no evidence that vulnerabilty is weakness.
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I can't even think of the right word, but it's not help. It's more like a prerequisite. I think connection is why we're here, it's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives, and belonging is in our DNA. And so tribe and belonging are irreducible needs, like love.
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Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.
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