Brene Brown Quotes

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• Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.
• If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line…
• I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.
• The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversharing is distrust, disconnection - and usually a little judgment.
• I think our capacity for wholeheartedness can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted. It means engaging with the world from a place…
• I love to take, process and share photos - it fills me up.
• To me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is…
• I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.
• When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.
• As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We…
• The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.
• Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our…
• First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should…
• As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage…
• Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.

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