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Don't do anything that you're already not great at doing.

Brené Brown

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Brené Brown
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: November 18
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Who we are matters immeasurably more than what we know or who we want to be.
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Numb the dark and you numb the light.
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If you own this story you get to write the ending.
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Empathy is the antidote to shame.
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We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.
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'Crazy-busy' is a great armor, it's a great way for numbing. What a lot of us do is that we stay so busy, and so out in front of our life, that the truth of how we're feeling and what we really need can't catch up with us.
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We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.
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