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If we want to live and love with our whole hearts, and if we want to engage with the world from a place of worthiness, we have to talk about the things that get in the way- especially shame, fear and vulnerability

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Brené Brown
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: November 18
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Perfect and bulletproof are seductive, but they don’t exist in the human experience.
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