Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back. — Brené Brown Fighting Copy Share Image
I don't just want someone who says they love me; I want someone who practices that love for me every day. — Brené Brown Every day Copy Share Image
We're a nation of exhausted and over-stressed adults raising over-scheduled children. — Brené Brown Adults Copy Share Image
“My job is to help my children believe in and belong to themselves.” — Brené Brown Believe Copy Share Image
It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance. — Brene Brown Authenticity Copy Share Image
Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together. — Brené Brown Imperfection Copy Share Image
We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment — Brené Brown Child Copy Share Image
I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of… — Brené Brown Lists Copy Share Image
“Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism. Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want… — Brené Brown Courage Copy Share Image
Love is a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them - we… — Brené Brown Connections Copy Share Image
The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection - and usually a… — Brene Brown Connection Copy Share Image
Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don't matter,… — Brené Brown Boundaries Copy Share Image
“If empathy is the skill or ability to tap into our own experiences in order to connect with an experience someone is… — Brené Brown Compassion Copy Share Image
We cannot give our children what we don't have. Where we are on our journey of living and loving with our whole… — Brené Brown Book Copy Share Image
My husband's a pediatrician, so he and I talk about parenting all the time. You can't raise children who have more shame… — Brene Brown About Copy Share Image
“I believe Black Lives Matter is a movement to rehumanize black citizens. All lives matter, but not all lives need to be… — Brené Brown Black lives Copy Share Image
“One of the biggest surprises in this research was learning that fitting in and belonging are not the same thing. In fact,… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
After doing this work or the past twelve years and watching scarcity ride roughshod over our families, organizations, and communities, I'd say… — Brené Brown Afraid Copy Share Image
One of the most painfully inauthentic ways we show up in our lives sometimes is saying "yes" when we mean "no," and… — Brené Brown Four Copy Share Image
We have become this very fear-based culture, especially post-9/11. Fear is the opposite of love, in my opinion. I think there would… — Brené Brown Acceptance Copy Share Image
“It was a long year. I lovingly refer to it on my blog as the 2007 Breakdown Spiritual Awakening. It felt like… — Brené Brown Awakening Copy Share Image
The credit belongs to those of us who are actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and… — Brené Brown Achievement Copy Share Image
“Wholehearted living is about engaging with our lives from a place of worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion and connection to… — Brené Brown Bed Copy Share Image
“Belonging so fully to yourself that you're willing to stand alone is a wilderness -- an untamed, unpredictable place of solitude and… — Brené Brown Community Copy Share Image
“Knowing what I do now, I think about shame and worthiness in this way: 'It's the album, not the picture.' If you… — Brené Brown Guilt Copy Share Image
“I knew this was a critically important finding in my research, so I spent several hundred interviews trying to better understand the… — Brené Brown Addiction Copy Share Image
“-Si noua ne este rusine. Uneori, teribil de rusine. Dar cand incercam sa spunem cuiva despre asta, ne coplesc emotiile. Mi-a fost… — Brené Brown Amor Copy Share Image
“According to Bishop, the author of The Big Sort, in 1976 less than 25% of Americans lived in places where the presidential… — Brené Brown Books Copy Share Image
“Dr. Kristin Neff is a researcher and professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She runs the Self-Compassion Research Lab, where… — Brené Brown Common humanity Copy Share Image
“Disengagement is the issue underlying the majority of problems I see in families, schools, communities, and organizations and it takes many forms,… — Brené Brown Disengagement Copy Share Image
“But here’s the tricky part about compassion and connecting: We can’t call just anyone. It’s not that simple. I have a lot… — Brené Brown Compassion Copy Share Image
