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I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find
happiness—
it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude. |
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Language
is our portal to meaning-making, connection, healing, learning,
and self-awareness. Having access to the right words can
open up entire universes. When we don't have the language to
talk about what we're experiencing, our ability to make sense of
what's happening and share it with others is extremely
limited. Without accurate language, we struggle to get the
help we need, we don't always regulate or manage our emotions and
experiences in a way that allows us to move through them
productively, and our self-awareness is diminished. Language
shows us that naming an experience doesn't give the experience
more power, it gives us the power of understanding and
meaning.
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Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart. When we attach judgment to receiving help, we knowingly or unknowingly attach judgment to giving help.
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We are complex beings who wake up every day and fight against being labeled and diminished with stereotypes and characterizations that don’t reflect our fullness. Yet when we don’t risk standing on our own and speaking out, when the options laid before us force us into the very categories we resist, we perpetuate our own disconnection and loneliness. When we are willing to risk venturing into the wilderness, and even becoming our own wilderness, we feel the deepest connection to our true self and to what matters the most.
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Compassionate people ask for what they need. They say no when they need to, and when they say yes, they mean it. They're compassionate because their boundaries keep them out of resentment.
I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.
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The opposite of scarcity is not abundance; the opposite of scarcity
is simply enough. Empathy is not finite, and compassion is not a
pizza with eight slices. When you practice empathy and compassion
with someone, there is not less of these qualities to go around.
There’s more. Love is the last thing we need to ration in this world. |
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Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we
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I now see that owning our story and loving ourselves through
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Trust is earned in the smallest of moments. It is earned not through
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Casandra Brené Brown (born November 18, 1965) is an American academic and podcaster who is the Huffington Foundation's Brené Brown Endowed Chair at the University of Houston's Graduate College of Social Work and a visiting professor in management at the McCombs School of Business in the University of Texas at Austin. Brown is known for her work on shame, vulnerability, and leadership, and for her widely viewed 2010 TEDx talk. She has written six number-one New York Times bestselling books and hosted two podcasts on Spotify.
She appears in the 2019 documentary Brené Brown: The Call to Courage on Netflix. In 2022, HBO Max released a documentary series based on her book Atlas of the Heart.
Brown was born on November 18, 1965, in San Antonio, Texas, where her parents, Charles Arthur Brown and Casandra Deanne Rogers, had her baptized in the Episcopal Church. She is the eldest of four children. Her family then moved to New Orleans, Louisiana.
Brown completed a Bachelor of Social Work degree at the University of Texas at Austin in 1995, a Master of Social Work degree in 1996, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in social work at the University of Houston Graduate School of Social Work in 2002.
Brown and her husband, Steve Alley, have two children. The family lives in Houston, Texas.[
Though she was baptized in the Episcopal Church, her family raised her as a Catholic.[ She later left the Catholic Church and returned to the Episcopal community with her husband and children two decades later.
Brown revealed past addictions to alcohol, smoking, emotional eating and control (she often speaks about the positive impact of her decision to stop drinking and smoking on May 12, 1996, one day after her master's program graduation).
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